Allow it in your home, just be smart enough to thwart it. All my security cameras are the 1080p china units that send video back to china. It was trivial to eliminate that capability with a JTAG interface and then getting in to disable services. They just run an embedded linux.
The muggles that know nothing at all about tech, they are doomed.
All this crap requiring a internet connection is crap. if it can not operate offline then it's junk and you need to avoid it. Net connection required for remote operation? fine, but to require it for any operation is a sign that it is designed by incompetent engineers.
Quirky and Wink for example are 100% junk as their stuff falls on it's face when your internet goes offline. If it can not operate on the local lan on it's own and requires remote processing then it is complete and utter garbage.
5-10 minutes? Not in reality unless people there are commuting 30 to 60 miles.
I have a 30 mile commute and if I drive 10mph over the speed limit for those 30 miles, in a perfect world where I CAN maintain that extra 10mph I gain exactly 5 minutes.
But in reality the highway is not empty so I can do 80 unimpeded. other traffic like semi trucks cause me to slow down. Even if I try like hell to maintain 80 as much as possible. My average speed over those 30 miles is only 74mph and I saved 2 minutes that instantly get deleted up when I get to traffic at my destination city.
I did find a way to get their earlier than any speeder out there, simply leave 15 minutes early and get ahead of the traffic rush.
Sounds like you guys need better drivers. Slam on the brakes? Drivers in your country know that you can apply them gradually right? It sounds like they don't look down the road but instead look at the pavement just in front of their car.
Yes, Self righteous ass-hats that believe they have a god given right to speed. Speeding on the open highway? go ahead, but the people that blow through a residential neighborhood at 35 need to be dragged from the cars and beaten.
It's those people that dont like speed cameras.
I personally want speed bumps in neighborhoods and speed cameras at construction zones. Because speed bumps force the low IQ drivers to actually slow down or become comicial entertainment to watch.
This "feature" did not exist until the past 30 years. Before that it all works a lot better.
Under eBay v. Newman, the law is as Franken said: “it is literally malfeasance for a corporation not to do everything it legally can to maximize its profits.” Just ask Jim and Craig; no one disputes it’s their company, but they’re legally prohibited from taking steps to preserve the profit-alongside-community-service mission that’s served them well. Maximize profits, or else.
If you think that is a good thing then you are what's wrong with the world.
My wife has an iPad 3. no reason to replace it as it does everything perfectly for her. it's fast, it has a nice screen, the battery lasts forever. Mine is the ipad 4 and it works perfectly.
When am I going to get upgrades? when those break or there is a real reason to upgrade. My 3 year old Nexus 7 works perfectly for it's uses as well as my Surface Pro (version 1) that I use at work. No reason at all to replace them as they all still work and all still do the job.
In fact the surface pro 3 is a joke as it's the exact same specs as the 1 maybe if they made a quad i7 that boosted up to 4ghz came with 16gb ram and had a door that I could open to replace the battery and upgrade the SSD.. I'd buy a new one. But the exact same i5, screen, ram and SSD in the new one is 100% MEH.
In fact the Pro 1 is better than the 3. I can install linux and OSX on it if I choose to (I dual boot Win8.1 and Ubuntu) Cant do that on the 3 so it's inferior.
They need to make tablets cheaper and break easier if they want people to buy new ones ever year. Nice fast tablet at $199? I'll buy a new one yearly. but at $699 (or $1499 for the surface) It's not going to get replaced until I really need to.
100% correct. we have technology right now to have everyone walk down a very long tunnel in an orderly fashion, not needing to disrobe or get butt fingered. to detect any and all explosives or compounds and look for weapons. a single 100 foot long hallway will give them plenty of time for checks and rechecks of people 3 lanes wide. you can even walk in carrying your bag.
But then you will not SEE The security and experience the security. And that is the important part to the TSA and the government. you must experience the Theater. Feel the terror.
Exactly. If a CEO is making more than 6 figures, then the claims of not making money are 100% bullshit. In fact this litmus test works for any company that is claiming that they are hurting or not making money. Look at the Executives salaries. if you see anything above 6 figures for the top executives then this is 100% proof they are lying through their teeth.
If you see they had a 50% reduction in executive salaries from the previous year, then their claims have validity.
I do, just look at the executives of all those airlines. They are all bumbling morons. US airlines are ran by idiots and morons. It seems that outside the USA they can be profitable and not abuse the customer.
The mistake they make is allowing HTC, Samsung, and carriers like AT&T O2 and Verizon to utterly vandalize Android.
Android in it's pure form is a wonderful thing. But the handset makers and then the Carriers bend it over, have their way with it then vandalize it, ruining the whole Android experience.
Here in the USA it's all about screwing the traveller. We have some of the dumbest laws and the most corrupt companies that are fully supported by our government.
I want shareholders to stuff it up their assholes. They do not RUN the company, and this bullshit law that forces companies to chase profits above all else has done nothing but ruin the world. Noisy Loud Shareholders are scumbags that need to GTFO.
They are not Agile enough and have lost a LOT of ground in the past 3 years.
Honestly unless they do major changes to their business model and replace all of their management to get rid of the microsoft way, they will become a foot-note in the history books.
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Allow it in your home, just be smart enough to thwart it. All my security cameras are the 1080p china units that send video back to china. It was trivial to eliminate that capability with a JTAG interface and then getting in to disable services. They just run an embedded linux.
The muggles that know nothing at all about tech, they are doomed.
A fucking spring? Cool!
Kind of inconvenient way of winding it though , where do you have to strap it when you wind it that way?
All this crap requiring a internet connection is crap. if it can not operate offline then it's junk and you need to avoid it. Net connection required for remote operation? fine, but to require it for any operation is a sign that it is designed by incompetent engineers.
Quirky and Wink for example are 100% junk as their stuff falls on it's face when your internet goes offline. If it can not operate on the local lan on it's own and requires remote processing then it is complete and utter garbage.
Do not buy garbage no matter how shiny it is.
So we can get more freedom hating republicans in power? They are the assholes that started this whole mess. What president signed the PATRIOT act?
Nope, the heavy accelerations away from ours started the day microsoft windows was first announced.
And they are crap.
a simple Fresnel lens defeats the cameras because they smear the plate on any off axis. My $1.00 solution outperforms your overpriced plate.
5-10 minutes? Not in reality unless people there are commuting 30 to 60 miles.
I have a 30 mile commute and if I drive 10mph over the speed limit for those 30 miles, in a perfect world where I CAN maintain that extra 10mph I gain exactly 5 minutes.
But in reality the highway is not empty so I can do 80 unimpeded. other traffic like semi trucks cause me to slow down. Even if I try like hell to maintain 80 as much as possible. My average speed over those 30 miles is only 74mph and I saved 2 minutes that instantly get deleted up when I get to traffic at my destination city.
I did find a way to get their earlier than any speeder out there, simply leave 15 minutes early and get ahead of the traffic rush.
You are right, no reason for people to get angry for me going on a murder spree.
There is NEVER a case for ZERO TOLERANCE
Sounds like you guys need better drivers. Slam on the brakes? Drivers in your country know that you can apply them gradually right? It sounds like they don't look down the road but instead look at the pavement just in front of their car.
In Illinois? yes. I have seen more brain dead crashes on IL highways than any other state. Most of them think they can drive 100+ but in reality cant.
Not a problem I drive the speed limit on I-80 all the time through IL and then drive the speed limit on 55 down to normal. Works perfectly fine.
Yes, Self righteous ass-hats that believe they have a god given right to speed.
Speeding on the open highway? go ahead, but the people that blow through a residential neighborhood at 35 need to be dragged from the cars and beaten.
It's those people that dont like speed cameras.
I personally want speed bumps in neighborhoods and speed cameras at construction zones. Because speed bumps force the low IQ drivers to actually slow down or become comicial entertainment to watch.
This "feature" did not exist until the past 30 years. Before that it all works a lot better.
Under eBay v. Newman, the law is as Franken said: “it is literally malfeasance for a corporation not to do everything it legally can to maximize its profits.” Just ask Jim and Craig; no one disputes it’s their company, but they’re legally prohibited from taking steps to preserve the profit-alongside-community-service mission that’s served them well. Maximize profits, or else.
If you think that is a good thing then you are what's wrong with the world.
My wife has an iPad 3. no reason to replace it as it does everything perfectly for her. it's fast, it has a nice screen, the battery lasts forever. Mine is the ipad 4 and it works perfectly.
When am I going to get upgrades? when those break or there is a real reason to upgrade. My 3 year old Nexus 7 works perfectly for it's uses as well as my Surface Pro (version 1) that I use at work. No reason at all to replace them as they all still work and all still do the job.
In fact the surface pro 3 is a joke as it's the exact same specs as the 1 maybe if they made a quad i7 that boosted up to 4ghz came with 16gb ram and had a door that I could open to replace the battery and upgrade the SSD.. I'd buy a new one. But the exact same i5, screen, ram and SSD in the new one is 100% MEH.
In fact the Pro 1 is better than the 3. I can install linux and OSX on it if I choose to (I dual boot Win8.1 and Ubuntu) Cant do that on the 3 so it's inferior.
They need to make tablets cheaper and break easier if they want people to buy new ones ever year. Nice fast tablet at $199? I'll buy a new one yearly. but at $699 (or $1499 for the surface) It's not going to get replaced until I really need to.
PhabWatchlets will be the next new thing. Just wait for some stupid blogger to coin that term.
100% correct. we have technology right now to have everyone walk down a very long tunnel in an orderly fashion, not needing to disrobe or get butt fingered. to detect any and all explosives or compounds and look for weapons. a single 100 foot long hallway will give them plenty of time for checks and rechecks of people 3 lanes wide. you can even walk in carrying your bag.
But then you will not SEE The security and experience the security. And that is the important part to the TSA and the government. you must experience the Theater. Feel the terror.
Exactly. If a CEO is making more than 6 figures, then the claims of not making money are 100% bullshit. In fact this litmus test works for any company that is claiming that they are hurting or not making money. Look at the Executives salaries. if you see anything above 6 figures for the top executives then this is 100% proof they are lying through their teeth.
If you see they had a 50% reduction in executive salaries from the previous year, then their claims have validity.
You do lose money if you funnel as much of your profits away from the company to make sure your books show a loss.
I do, just look at the executives of all those airlines. They are all bumbling morons.
US airlines are ran by idiots and morons. It seems that outside the USA they can be profitable and not abuse the customer.
The mistake they make is allowing HTC, Samsung, and carriers like AT&T O2 and Verizon to utterly vandalize Android.
Android in it's pure form is a wonderful thing. But the handset makers and then the Carriers bend it over, have their way with it then vandalize it, ruining the whole Android experience.
Google needs to tell them all to STOP IT.
Here in the USA it's all about screwing the traveller. We have some of the dumbest laws and the most corrupt companies that are fully supported by our government.
If you want it to be flakey go wireless.
If you want it to be flawless, go wired.
You are already running power, run the DMX wire along with it.
I want shareholders to stuff it up their assholes. They do not RUN the company, and this bullshit law that forces companies to chase profits above all else has done nothing but ruin the world. Noisy Loud Shareholders are scumbags that need to GTFO.
They are not Agile enough and have lost a LOT of ground in the past 3 years.
Honestly unless they do major changes to their business model and replace all of their management to get rid of the microsoft way, they will become a foot-note in the history books.
When you have only 4 SATA ports on the micro server it doesn't matter if you have 600 drive bays.