The C5 and especially C6 corvettes can corner very well. For the money I'd also go with an Elise, but that's just because I like the smaller footprint and speed-through-efficiency/minimalism design, a C5/6 is an equally valid option.
And I can't find the 208CC's specs but I definitely prefer the look of the Solstice.
It's possible, just hardhack in a line to spoof GPS output in place of the unit's GPS module. Get a few and make it look like cars are swarming Area 51 or driving in the ocean or flying in the sky or whatever.
Haha that's basically a given. Whatever corporations have access to, the government can get, unless it's something that would really ruin the corporation if found.
But customer data is generally a free-for-all to the government, and customers generally don't care. There are a few exceptions of course, like if your customers are made up entirely of a niche that cares greatly about keeping customer data away from the government, in which case the corporation won't be so cooperative. Example: private banking. On the other end of the spectrum, see: cellular location data. There's a freaking web interface for convenient police access.
The *only* reason to get a GM car is if you want to opt in to OnStar, or if you live in one of those places where people start egging your house if you don't buy American.
There are exceptions. For example the Corvettes and Solstice variants are good cars. Yes the Corvette has a godawful, cheap as shit interior. But if you care about that, you're buying it for the wrong reasons.
But that's already possible. It's called BIOS rootkit protection. Anyone who needs to do an OS reinstall needs to know how to change boot devices, so asking them to be able to flip that on and off isn't too much. Or even have a default "idiot" setting where it's on by default only when booting from the hard disk (since newer computers have those handy quick-pick boot menus).
Some components already work like this. Factory ECUs will go into limp mode if they don't get a signal from the speed sensor (the sole purpose of which, to the ECU, is to activate the top speed limiter). You can bypass it by putting a resistor in place of the ECU's speed sensor hookup so the ECU thinks the car is travelling at a constant speed 100% of the time. Which it's fine with, as long as it's not over 180kph or so.
There are similar issues if you want to remove the catalytic converter (not good for the environment, I generally recommend getting a high-flow cat instead). IIRC if you did want to do a de-cat, you'd have to hook up a resistor to the post-cat O2 sensor to make it think a cat is still in there or it will run too lean. If you have a cat temp sensor you have to trick that too.
Or you could just swap the stock ECU for a MegaSquirt and skip all the bullshit.
Yeah but you can knock a good 20lbs. off your car by removing the OnStar system, and maybe make room for something more useful, like one of those empty cubbies. You should be able to sell the old OnStar tumor to a scrap yard for some cash too.
Yeah I should have said "iOS devices," although Apple does something similar with their desktops: They don't want you to install OSX on different hardware, to protect the software's reputation. With iOS they don't want you to install different OSes on the devices to protect the hardware's reputation.
Yeah I think that one's down to incompetence. Windows considers anything in the boot sector that isn't the Windows bootloader to be a corrupt bootloader. Even on disks where the Windows install itself doesn't reside, if they're set as the primary boot disk.
Maybe once you get over trying to beat Microsoft and just be happy with whatever you've decided to take on as your own instead you'll finally find peace.
How would that be an option if the PC's BIOS doesn't allow it smart guy?
And yes you could argue that he's just a contrarian who *only* likes to post when he sees anti-MS stuff. There will be no way to know for sure, just as you couldn't tell if a spy is just a guy who's BFFs with people who work in foreign government intelligence agencies.
Are you serious? Since when do random beige box models need the "SEO perfection" of Apple devices? Why have they never tried to prevent the installation of competing OSes before in history since the release of the first "IBM clones?"
Why waste your time inventing conspiracy theories, when a very good reason to do this is obvious: Malware is a real problem, and this is a good measure to take against it.
No, this is a really, really BAD measure to take against it, just as locking down the Internet and requiring a national ID number to connect a device to it would be. With such a system you could lock up or even execute all the black hats and there would be no malware within a year, does that make it a GOOD solution because it's effective?
And yes I think that's a fair comparison, both ridiculously bad for the freedom of average citizens and the overall freedom of computing.
Yeah laptops are gonna suck. Last time I bought one I shopped around at the "Linux boutiques" and they were all bloody expensive (as in 2x+ the cost of the same laptop from the vendor with Windows on it). I just bit the bullet and bought a Windows laptop and wiped it (changed the hard drive, actually...I don't want that slow bargain-basement shit they put in all off-the-shelf non-gaming PCs).
I thought about refunding the Windows license but decided not to, in case I wanted to run games on it or something. In retrospect I should have done it, even though it's a fair bit of work.
There you go again. You know the post history feature is working again and everybody can see it. The fact that the feature was broken until recently is what kept you in the suspicion zone.
The better shills at least make a meaningful number of posts not related to shilling.
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The C5 and especially C6 corvettes can corner very well. For the money I'd also go with an Elise, but that's just because I like the smaller footprint and speed-through-efficiency/minimalism design, a C5/6 is an equally valid option.
And I can't find the 208CC's specs but I definitely prefer the look of the Solstice.
It's possible, just hardhack in a line to spoof GPS output in place of the unit's GPS module. Get a few and make it look like cars are swarming Area 51 or driving in the ocean or flying in the sky or whatever.
Haha that's basically a given. Whatever corporations have access to, the government can get, unless it's something that would really ruin the corporation if found.
But customer data is generally a free-for-all to the government, and customers generally don't care. There are a few exceptions of course, like if your customers are made up entirely of a niche that cares greatly about keeping customer data away from the government, in which case the corporation won't be so cooperative. Example: private banking. On the other end of the spectrum, see: cellular location data. There's a freaking web interface for convenient police access.
The *only* reason to get a GM car is if you want to opt in to OnStar, or if you live in one of those places where people start egging your house if you don't buy American.
There are exceptions. For example the Corvettes and Solstice variants are good cars. Yes the Corvette has a godawful, cheap as shit interior. But if you care about that, you're buying it for the wrong reasons.
You can do it yourself if you know how. If you don't, you can pay a mechanic to do it. It won't affect any other functions of your car (yet).
Touareg? Ugh. What were you thinking?
But that's already possible. It's called BIOS rootkit protection. Anyone who needs to do an OS reinstall needs to know how to change boot devices, so asking them to be able to flip that on and off isn't too much. Or even have a default "idiot" setting where it's on by default only when booting from the hard disk (since newer computers have those handy quick-pick boot menus).
True, whenever your cell phone's on, you're being tracked. Just keep that in mind everyone.
Some components already work like this. Factory ECUs will go into limp mode if they don't get a signal from the speed sensor (the sole purpose of which, to the ECU, is to activate the top speed limiter). You can bypass it by putting a resistor in place of the ECU's speed sensor hookup so the ECU thinks the car is travelling at a constant speed 100% of the time. Which it's fine with, as long as it's not over 180kph or so.
There are similar issues if you want to remove the catalytic converter (not good for the environment, I generally recommend getting a high-flow cat instead). IIRC if you did want to do a de-cat, you'd have to hook up a resistor to the post-cat O2 sensor to make it think a cat is still in there or it will run too lean. If you have a cat temp sensor you have to trick that too.
Or you could just swap the stock ECU for a MegaSquirt and skip all the bullshit.
Yeah but you can knock a good 20lbs. off your car by removing the OnStar system, and maybe make room for something more useful, like one of those empty cubbies. You should be able to sell the old OnStar tumor to a scrap yard for some cash too.
Yeah I should have said "iOS devices," although Apple does something similar with their desktops: They don't want you to install OSX on different hardware, to protect the software's reputation. With iOS they don't want you to install different OSes on the devices to protect the hardware's reputation.
Give it a touchscreen and a physical keyboard like my last 3 phones had, and I'll buy it!
Aw come on we aren't a bunch of Victorian ladies.
ge7 never said that. yakovlev said that:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2438190&cid=37467014
A bad phone can actually screw up a network by behaving like a brute force jamming device and constantly transmitting, causing increased network load.
Actually you'd have to alter the GSM modem's firmware to allow that, and those are rightly locked down extra-tight.
Yeah I think that one's down to incompetence. Windows considers anything in the boot sector that isn't the Windows bootloader to be a corrupt bootloader. Even on disks where the Windows install itself doesn't reside, if they're set as the primary boot disk.
LOL you didn't read my last paragraph obviously. Did you give your old shilling account to a troll for the lulz?
I prefer Linux but you don't see me saying Linux is great for everything and Windows (and everything else) sucks for everything in 90% of my posts.
Maybe once you get over trying to beat Microsoft and just be happy with whatever you've decided to take on as your own instead you'll finally find peace.
How would that be an option if the PC's BIOS doesn't allow it smart guy?
I did address his argument in a sibling post.
And yes you could argue that he's just a contrarian who *only* likes to post when he sees anti-MS stuff. There will be no way to know for sure, just as you couldn't tell if a spy is just a guy who's BFFs with people who work in foreign government intelligence agencies.
Are you serious? Since when do random beige box models need the "SEO perfection" of Apple devices? Why have they never tried to prevent the installation of competing OSes before in history since the release of the first "IBM clones?"
Oh jeez I knew my username would bite me in the ass some day when I came up with at around 12 years old...
I'm not a Nintendo fanboy. It's meant to mean "boy who plays games." That's why there's no space or initial caps.
I haven't said a single positive thing about Nintendo in at least the last 4 years. I find their lockdown on the 3DS and Wii absolutely disgusting.
Why waste your time inventing conspiracy theories, when a very good reason to do this is obvious: Malware is a real problem, and this is a good measure to take against it.
No, this is a really, really BAD measure to take against it, just as locking down the Internet and requiring a national ID number to connect a device to it would be. With such a system you could lock up or even execute all the black hats and there would be no malware within a year, does that make it a GOOD solution because it's effective?
And yes I think that's a fair comparison, both ridiculously bad for the freedom of average citizens and the overall freedom of computing.
Yeah laptops are gonna suck. Last time I bought one I shopped around at the "Linux boutiques" and they were all bloody expensive (as in 2x+ the cost of the same laptop from the vendor with Windows on it). I just bit the bullet and bought a Windows laptop and wiped it (changed the hard drive, actually...I don't want that slow bargain-basement shit they put in all off-the-shelf non-gaming PCs).
I thought about refunding the Windows license but decided not to, in case I wanted to run games on it or something. In retrospect I should have done it, even though it's a fair bit of work.
There you go again. You know the post history feature is working again and everybody can see it. The fact that the feature was broken until recently is what kept you in the suspicion zone.
The better shills at least make a meaningful number of posts not related to shilling.