I wouldn't say it's more complicated. It's a heat pump system, which is similar to a car's AC system, except that it's powered by an electric motor and it has switchable valve circuits to allow it to heat or cool the inside of the car. I don't know if any EVs use waste heat for the interior, an EV doesn't create much. Battery heaters could be resistive elements (can't get simpler than that) or simply a heat exchanger tied into the heat pump system. Some EVs like the BMW i8 use the heat pump to cool the batteries as well.
An ICE vehicle has the AC system which is about as complicated as the EV's heat pump system (doesn't have the electric motor or switchable valves but does have an electromagnetic clutch and belt drive), plus the separate heater that runs on engine waste heat. A diesel car would also have a fuel preheater system on the engine, a combination of a resistive element & waste heat system.
This will spur demand for a racist-friendly rental site, they could call it Aryanbnb. This would also help nonwhite renters avoid discrimination by simply avoiding the site!
But seriously, this shit's not gonna stop as long as loopholes exist for short-term online rentals that don't for traditional rentals. See also: Illegal interview questions vs. employer facebook stalking.
If you think the corporate world is a shitty place, you have no one to blame but yourself.
Notice that he profited from the arrangement and the honest people suffered, however. Capitalism says he did good and the honest people can get fucked.
Yet lithium batteries have a long history of decreasing in price. I'd suspect that's because lithium batteries can be recycled and because the price of batteries has more to do with manufacturing costs than raw material price. Furthermore, lithium-based batteries might not always be the best - look at dual-carbon batteries for example.
Ohoho how I wish that were true! I've had to get two engines disassembled for major work in the last few months. One was rebuilt recently, but due to some microscopic imperfection in the reassembly process, it wrecked itself (spun a rod bearing) costing me thousands. And in my experience about 1/4 of automotive problems are directly related to the engine, and about 2/3rd related to the ICE or a system only an ICE would have. I've never had an engine fail from "abuse" though. In fact from what I've seen they seem to shrug off abuse and die from very minor problems and the consequences of design flaws, or if it's a really good engine, it will simply become comically inefficient and polluting (both through the exhaust and directly from every orifice) when it gets old.
Most EVs don't have gearboxes - they're direct-drive into the differential or even into the axle shafts. The heat and AC on EVs are the same system. Many EVs don't have a cooling system, those that do run at much lower temperatures and pressures than an ICE cooling system. The brakes see much less load - especially less load than an ICE car with an automatic transmission. Other systems no longer have to stand up to the heat, vibration and potential fluid leaks of the ICE.
Portability doesn't give fossil fuels any advantage in remote areas, it gives them an advantage on vehicles that have to travel long distances before refuelling. Don't forget that fossil fuels require heavy industry to produce, so unless you have crude oil pumps and a refinery on site it needs to be shipped in, from a long distance since it's a remote area. In remote areas on-site energy production is an advantage. The arctic and antarctic regions get a solid 6 months of sun per year and don't seem to have a shortage of wind (which constantly blows snow around in undesirable ways). During the 6 months of darkness, fossil fuels make more sense simply because it's a compact form of stored energy. Mountains and most other remote areas get sun and wind like anywhere else.
An electric car is no more expensive than an ICE car in the long term - an ICE car's fuel and maintenance costs are vastly more expensive while an electric car is more expensive up front (and has the long-term occasional concentrated maintenance cost of a new battery pack). I know Gen. Y'ers who own Nissan Leafs and Kia Soul EVs.
Or, somewhat more seriously, destroyed by an impact with something...anything really, at large fractions of the speed of light, or destroyed by a terrorist attack from within (many generations gives time for indigenous doomsday cults to form), or cleared of all life due to an unrecoverable malfunction with any life support system. A generation ship is constantly rolling the dice for its own survival, and what I see as a major flaw in the concept is the belief that it will never roll snake eyes in however many hundreds or thousands of years it spends in space. The odds of a generation ship reaching its destination intact are just too slim.
I still think a better solution is to treat HTTP and self-signed HTTPS the same - giving no warning for them. By all means display a secure icon for HTTPS with a CA cert, but there's nothing inherently dangerous about an HTTP or self-signed HTTPS connection.
It's hilarious that the persistent arch-enemy of the supposed strongman Trump is a mainstream "news" anchor at a TV channel allied to his party. And a feminine-looking woman too! You'd think it would make every neckbearded alt-right head explode.
And what dastardly tactic has she used to thwart and frustrate the glorious-leader-to-be? Not asking him soft enough questions.
A minor perception problem that we need to work past, and partly have already. Modern browsers all show special symbols in the URL bar for verified HTTPS connections - usually green or blue highlighting. In line with plaintext connection behavior, these shouldn't be shown for self-signed certs.
I think that countries need to switch to an open ballot because of the conflicts between the secret ballot and hybrid direct/representative democratic systems and electronic voting (which thanks to advances in cryptography becomes more viable every day). However the only reason the US didn't have huge trouble with an open ballot was the decreased motive for vote buying, since all voters in that time were white males - and usually from the upper classes at that (during much of that period, the white males also had to own land and/or pass an "intelligence test" and travel in ways that weren't practical for the working class in order to vote). In short, the country club crowd had no reason to pay or coerce each other to vote the way they all wanted. The fledgling democracy would've been clearly identified as an oligopoly by today's standards.
An open ballot being shoehorned into today's world would cause corruption and vote fraud to skyrocket. A switch to an open ballot system, which again I think is a worthwhile pursuit, will need to be accompanied with very strong technical and legal countermeasures to prevent this.
How has the CA that sold the cert to the wifi company not been blacklisted? I assume they've legally cleared themselves by putting notification of this in the wifi portal EULA, but that is ethically wrong as hell. The CA sold a cert for use in what is effectively a blackhat SSL MITM appliance that is supposedly being used with the best of intentions.
Ethically the right thing to do would be to spell out how the airline wifi works on the portal page and include instructions on how to accept a self-signed MITM cert for those who wish to continue.
I think Firefox handles self-signed certs that same way as most other browsers, so you should be able to permanently trust the cert at the first use. It sounds like you might be using temporary profiles or private browsing sessions.
That said, the usual system of handling self-signed certs is a stupid one. Self-signed certs should be treated exactly the same as unencrypted traffic. There should be no "DANGER WILL ROBINSON!" warning when one is encountered. A self-signed cert is in no way less secure than a plaintext connection. The user should have the option to store and permanently trust a self-signed cert at any time.
That's not inspecting the traffic content, that's a NIDS that builds a profile of "normal operation" based on traffic patterns and checks against it. It would stop all your file shares from being uploaded at full speed over HTTPS to a novel server for example, but nothing much less blatant than that. It wouldn't do anything about a user passing malware back and forth all day long over their usual SSL'ed webmail or web chat service for example.
Keep doing what you're doing now. A self-signed cert saves you that trouble, but the downside is that it's already been leaked to a convenient centralized key repository which can be accessed by TPTB and any sufficiently skilled hackers.
Look into using key pinning to reduce the effort involved.
If I were Putin, and I had dirt on Clinton, I'd hang on to it until she were President. Much more leverage that way.
Why? Then you have someone with a head on their shoulders running your rival country and all you can do is try to get leverage on them after the fact with dirt on someone who is already covered in it (both candidates are well-covered, in fact). If you release the dirt before the election, you might get a fawning fanboy of yours who thinks like a 12-year-old boy running the US instead, giving you far more leverage overall than threatening Hillary with yet another skeleton for her cavernous walk-in wardrobe full of them.
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I wouldn't say it's more complicated. It's a heat pump system, which is similar to a car's AC system, except that it's powered by an electric motor and it has switchable valve circuits to allow it to heat or cool the inside of the car. I don't know if any EVs use waste heat for the interior, an EV doesn't create much. Battery heaters could be resistive elements (can't get simpler than that) or simply a heat exchanger tied into the heat pump system. Some EVs like the BMW i8 use the heat pump to cool the batteries as well.
An ICE vehicle has the AC system which is about as complicated as the EV's heat pump system (doesn't have the electric motor or switchable valves but does have an electromagnetic clutch and belt drive), plus the separate heater that runs on engine waste heat. A diesel car would also have a fuel preheater system on the engine, a combination of a resistive element & waste heat system.
Yeah sure, and the USSR wasn't communism, etc...
This will spur demand for a racist-friendly rental site, they could call it Aryanbnb. This would also help nonwhite renters avoid discrimination by simply avoiding the site!
But seriously, this shit's not gonna stop as long as loopholes exist for short-term online rentals that don't for traditional rentals. See also: Illegal interview questions vs. employer facebook stalking.
If you think the corporate world is a shitty place, you have no one to blame but yourself.
Notice that he profited from the arrangement and the honest people suffered, however. Capitalism says he did good and the honest people can get fucked.
Yet lithium batteries have a long history of decreasing in price. I'd suspect that's because lithium batteries can be recycled and because the price of batteries has more to do with manufacturing costs than raw material price. Furthermore, lithium-based batteries might not always be the best - look at dual-carbon batteries for example.
Ohoho how I wish that were true! I've had to get two engines disassembled for major work in the last few months. One was rebuilt recently, but due to some microscopic imperfection in the reassembly process, it wrecked itself (spun a rod bearing) costing me thousands. And in my experience about 1/4 of automotive problems are directly related to the engine, and about 2/3rd related to the ICE or a system only an ICE would have. I've never had an engine fail from "abuse" though. In fact from what I've seen they seem to shrug off abuse and die from very minor problems and the consequences of design flaws, or if it's a really good engine, it will simply become comically inefficient and polluting (both through the exhaust and directly from every orifice) when it gets old.
Most EVs don't have gearboxes - they're direct-drive into the differential or even into the axle shafts. The heat and AC on EVs are the same system. Many EVs don't have a cooling system, those that do run at much lower temperatures and pressures than an ICE cooling system. The brakes see much less load - especially less load than an ICE car with an automatic transmission. Other systems no longer have to stand up to the heat, vibration and potential fluid leaks of the ICE.
EVs are vastly simpler and more reliable.
I wouldn't assume the battery will cost the same 10 or 20 years from now as it does now...the price will probably halve or better each decade.
Portability doesn't give fossil fuels any advantage in remote areas, it gives them an advantage on vehicles that have to travel long distances before refuelling. Don't forget that fossil fuels require heavy industry to produce, so unless you have crude oil pumps and a refinery on site it needs to be shipped in, from a long distance since it's a remote area. In remote areas on-site energy production is an advantage. The arctic and antarctic regions get a solid 6 months of sun per year and don't seem to have a shortage of wind (which constantly blows snow around in undesirable ways). During the 6 months of darkness, fossil fuels make more sense simply because it's a compact form of stored energy. Mountains and most other remote areas get sun and wind like anywhere else.
An electric car is no more expensive than an ICE car in the long term - an ICE car's fuel and maintenance costs are vastly more expensive while an electric car is more expensive up front (and has the long-term occasional concentrated maintenance cost of a new battery pack). I know Gen. Y'ers who own Nissan Leafs and Kia Soul EVs.
See also: Pollution/global warming and geoengineering.
Or, somewhat more seriously, destroyed by an impact with something...anything really, at large fractions of the speed of light, or destroyed by a terrorist attack from within (many generations gives time for indigenous doomsday cults to form), or cleared of all life due to an unrecoverable malfunction with any life support system. A generation ship is constantly rolling the dice for its own survival, and what I see as a major flaw in the concept is the belief that it will never roll snake eyes in however many hundreds or thousands of years it spends in space. The odds of a generation ship reaching its destination intact are just too slim.
I still think a better solution is to treat HTTP and self-signed HTTPS the same - giving no warning for them. By all means display a secure icon for HTTPS with a CA cert, but there's nothing inherently dangerous about an HTTP or self-signed HTTPS connection.
It's hilarious that the persistent arch-enemy of the supposed strongman Trump is a mainstream "news" anchor at a TV channel allied to his party. And a feminine-looking woman too! You'd think it would make every neckbearded alt-right head explode.
And what dastardly tactic has she used to thwart and frustrate the glorious-leader-to-be? Not asking him soft enough questions.
Easy, option C. RAID is not a backup.
A minor perception problem that we need to work past, and partly have already. Modern browsers all show special symbols in the URL bar for verified HTTPS connections - usually green or blue highlighting. In line with plaintext connection behavior, these shouldn't be shown for self-signed certs.
s/oligopoly/oligarchy/g
I think that countries need to switch to an open ballot because of the conflicts between the secret ballot and hybrid direct/representative democratic systems and electronic voting (which thanks to advances in cryptography becomes more viable every day). However the only reason the US didn't have huge trouble with an open ballot was the decreased motive for vote buying, since all voters in that time were white males - and usually from the upper classes at that (during much of that period, the white males also had to own land and/or pass an "intelligence test" and travel in ways that weren't practical for the working class in order to vote). In short, the country club crowd had no reason to pay or coerce each other to vote the way they all wanted. The fledgling democracy would've been clearly identified as an oligopoly by today's standards.
An open ballot being shoehorned into today's world would cause corruption and vote fraud to skyrocket. A switch to an open ballot system, which again I think is a worthwhile pursuit, will need to be accompanied with very strong technical and legal countermeasures to prevent this.
How has the CA that sold the cert to the wifi company not been blacklisted? I assume they've legally cleared themselves by putting notification of this in the wifi portal EULA, but that is ethically wrong as hell. The CA sold a cert for use in what is effectively a blackhat SSL MITM appliance that is supposedly being used with the best of intentions.
Ethically the right thing to do would be to spell out how the airline wifi works on the portal page and include instructions on how to accept a self-signed MITM cert for those who wish to continue.
I think Firefox handles self-signed certs that same way as most other browsers, so you should be able to permanently trust the cert at the first use. It sounds like you might be using temporary profiles or private browsing sessions.
That said, the usual system of handling self-signed certs is a stupid one. Self-signed certs should be treated exactly the same as unencrypted traffic. There should be no "DANGER WILL ROBINSON!" warning when one is encountered. A self-signed cert is in no way less secure than a plaintext connection. The user should have the option to store and permanently trust a self-signed cert at any time.
That's not inspecting the traffic content, that's a NIDS that builds a profile of "normal operation" based on traffic patterns and checks against it. It would stop all your file shares from being uploaded at full speed over HTTPS to a novel server for example, but nothing much less blatant than that. It wouldn't do anything about a user passing malware back and forth all day long over their usual SSL'ed webmail or web chat service for example.
D'oh, I meant "A CA-signed cert saves you that trouble,"
Keep doing what you're doing now. A self-signed cert saves you that trouble, but the downside is that it's already been leaked to a convenient centralized key repository which can be accessed by TPTB and any sufficiently skilled hackers.
Look into using key pinning to reduce the effort involved.
If I were Putin, and I had dirt on Clinton, I'd hang on to it until she were President. Much more leverage that way.
Why? Then you have someone with a head on their shoulders running your rival country and all you can do is try to get leverage on them after the fact with dirt on someone who is already covered in it (both candidates are well-covered, in fact). If you release the dirt before the election, you might get a fawning fanboy of yours who thinks like a 12-year-old boy running the US instead, giving you far more leverage overall than threatening Hillary with yet another skeleton for her cavernous walk-in wardrobe full of them.
You're wrong about H.265. It offers massive compression improvements but also requires massively greater processing power to play back.
If anything, they should just turn the pylon sideways so it looks like a "Play" symbol, maybe that will silence the complainers :-P