And how long does it take to charge? I can "charge" my ICE fuel tank in about 5 minutes and it's ready for another 270 or so miles. The "chargers" can also often be found in groups of 12 or more, and usually no more than 10 miles apart down the highway in rural areas. (Not that I wouldn't like to have a Tesla.)
IIRC, a Tesla "super" charger can get you to like 3/4 charge in half an hour... but you have to get to one first.
They also have 1000ms ping times because they use geosynchronous satellites. Oh, and according to the wikipedia page, there's a 24 month contract period with steep cancellation fees, and they're serious about getting their equipment back when you do.
Hell, Verizon HomeFusion is about the same price as the 25GB plan.
That's nice. How many rural areas is it available in? Can you get it in Iowa? Have you ever seen a rural area? If this looks anything like rural Oklahoma (which I saw plenty of when I was in grade school, with a 30-minute school bus route), the houses (or sometimes clumps thereof) are 1000 feet from the road, and at least a half mile apart. Try looking at the area in question on Google street view.
How come South Korea and Japan can have ISP which provide their customers with Gbps throughput while on the United States of America the end users have to put up with all those robber barons ?
Because most of SK and JP population are in high-density urban areas, which are much easier to wire up affordably? TFA is about a rural cooperative.
Sure, there's the price of gas, staying home to internet, etc., but there's also the cost of getting a car in the first place. Cash for Clunkers reduced the number of available used vehicles, driving prices up. Also, some states have laws about the taxes for selling a car such that even if you sell for a dollar, the state will base the taxes on what they think the vehicle is worth. (Considering how they already can be with real estate tax appraisals, good luck with that.)
Because landing men on the moon was done by engineers, to solve a problem based on scientific principles like orbital mechanics. This is being done by non-engineers, to solve a problem based on legalese crap crammed in by lobbyists. (But they're the best non-engineers that money can buy!) It's all about the A-ark types vs the B-ark types.
This is why making a good thermostat is hard. Because everyone is used to the weather where they live, and most people can't conceive of the things that someone living elsewhere on the planet might need. Hot, cold, rainy, etc., or all of the above, single- or multi-stage, oil or gas or electric heat, not to mention people who need to monitor and control temperature remotely, like a summer house or a rental.
So some guy says "Do this, it works great!" and someone who lives 1000 miles way thinks "What a fucking idiot."
Cloud based isn't inherently bad. The problem is that if your thermostat is behind NAT, you can't talk to it when you're away without a lot of TCP/IP-fu, which no average person would want to do even if they could.
I have a Filtrete 3M50 (made by Radio Thermostat) which polls the cloud server with JSON over HTTP every 3 minutes or so, passing up the current status and pulling down any schedule changes or overrides. No firewall crap is necessary. The cloud is just the way that I can monitor/control it when I'm away. It also has a side-benefit that if my internet breaks, it shows the time that it was last working.
Yes, humidity control is good if you can get it, or even just "run the fan at least 10 minutes per hour". The problem I have is when night temperatures outside are around 65-75F, and the inside temperature stays below the set point and the AC doesn't come on, the humidity goes up and I can't sleep. My thermostat doesn't have either of those features, but I set my schedules so that both cooling and heating set it lower at night than during the day.
For when you're out of town and there's an unexpected freeze warning? I've had a 3M50 thermostat for a couple of years now. Last month I found another one cheap at a thrift store. Then a couple of weeks ago my mom was in a panic about freezing weather at her house while she was out of town. Not only could it have let the temperature be changed remotely, but it also has a mode to automatically switch from heat to cool (kind of important in Texas where it can be freezing one night then 80F a couple of days later). So it's getting installed the next time I'm down there, but I have to do something about that flaky WAP too.
Having had to write code to talk to PIN pads back in the late '90s, they still should never have had the unencrypted PINs, even with access to memory in a POS terminal. The PIN pad should be epoxy potted, with have the encryption key (and maybe even its entire firmware) injected into battery-backed RAM. The only thing leaving that PIN pad should be an encrypted blob based on the PIN. I even vaguely recall having to provide the card number to the PIN pad, making it a sort of salt to the encryption process. And the credit card clearinghouse is the only place with the other half of the key.
Or at least that's how they did it in the late '90s, before everything became a PC running Win-duh. And that's presumably why you still enter your PIN on a little device in the corner of the checkout area with its own keypad and card reader. It's not easy to put a RAM-sniffer trojan into a keypad running on an embedded microprocessor.
For those Europeans out there, the reason you have chip-and-PIN now (from what I've been able to tell) was that your PINs weren't encrypted end-to-end from potted keypad to clearinghouse, making it much easier to intercept them. So they added the chip to help with that. Also, in the US we typically only use PINs for debit, not for regular credit cards. I think the track-2 data is used by the credit card companies to ensure that someone didn't make a clone card from the account number alone, and the CVV is used for telephone transactions. Both require access to the original card to create a forged copy. (Access like, say, a card skimmer. Or human eyes.) Most gas stations also require you to enter your zip code when you pay at the pump as a further fail-safe against a stolen or forged card. (I learned that the hard way the time I entered 55555, and had to call my credit card company to get it straightened out.)
The thing that bugs me most is that they were on a network that was routed to the entire internet. Yeah, I don't think a POS terminal needs to be able to check Google or Facebook, much less "chernyykhod.ru". Even simply putting them on a VLAN with a very restrictive firewall to the public internet would have avoided the problem. And a RFC-1918 network doesn't count if it's behind a NAT router, since these packets went outbound from the POS. Belt and suspenders.
Then how did the NES manage to kill off the C64 and IBM PC?
Why are you so obsessive about this? The crash was also due to crapware flooding the market in the console space, and companies like Atari and Coleco trying to double down on 8-bit home computers. And it was nobody wanting to invest in making consoles because the business had been declared dead. It could even have been due to market changes from the last of the baby boomers going to college. I was one of them, graduating from high school in 1982, right on the line between baby boomer and GenX.
Home computers (the C64/PC being the last of them) replaced the consoles of the 1978-1984 era, then in late 1985 the NES brought back console gaming to the US. The NES and PC both killed off the C64. It didn't matter to me, though. I went straight from TRS-80 to Macintosh and didn't even have a game console for years until I started collecting game cartridges back in the mid '90s.
Of course I am talking about the US market here. Europe and Japan didn't have the crash of 1984, and 8-bit home computers and (even cassette tape in the UK, apparently!) kept going for quite a while.
If you want to be really obscure, pick 128.xxx.xxx.xxx, where xxx are all three digit numbers. In some OSes, only 128.0.0.1 is loopback, in others, 128/8 is loopback. (Cue the joke where the script kiddie hacker was dared to hack some random 128 address.)
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This whole topic sounds like some sort of lead-acid-induced hippie fantasy
FTFY. (Yeah, I know, lithium. Don't spoil the joke.)
And how long does it take to charge? I can "charge" my ICE fuel tank in about 5 minutes and it's ready for another 270 or so miles. The "chargers" can also often be found in groups of 12 or more, and usually no more than 10 miles apart down the highway in rural areas. (Not that I wouldn't like to have a Tesla.)
IIRC, a Tesla "super" charger can get you to like 3/4 charge in half an hour... but you have to get to one first.
1) create new social networking site
2) wait for Facebook to die
3) ???
4) PROFIT
Too bad that Slashdot's Unicode filters prevent you from actually entering any Chinese text.
Nobody wants to stay in a hotel to sit in a movie theatre with yellow brown dirt everywhere.
You mean that's not just popcorn dust?
...and you'll save up to 15% on your auto insurance too!
If the developers aren't sure what is needed to make it work properly, maybe they should sleep on it for a while.
They also have 1000ms ping times because they use geosynchronous satellites. Oh, and according to the wikipedia page, there's a 24 month contract period with steep cancellation fees, and they're serious about getting their equipment back when you do.
Hell, Verizon HomeFusion is about the same price as the 25GB plan.
That's nice. How many rural areas is it available in? Can you get it in Iowa? Have you ever seen a rural area? If this looks anything like rural Oklahoma (which I saw plenty of when I was in grade school, with a 30-minute school bus route), the houses (or sometimes clumps thereof) are 1000 feet from the road, and at least a half mile apart. Try looking at the area in question on Google street view.
How come South Korea and Japan can have ISP which provide their customers with Gbps throughput while on the United States of America the end users have to put up with all those robber barons ?
Because most of SK and JP population are in high-density urban areas, which are much easier to wire up affordably? TFA is about a rural cooperative.
Sure, there's the price of gas, staying home to internet, etc., but there's also the cost of getting a car in the first place. Cash for Clunkers reduced the number of available used vehicles, driving prices up. Also, some states have laws about the taxes for selling a car such that even if you sell for a dollar, the state will base the taxes on what they think the vehicle is worth. (Considering how they already can be with real estate tax appraisals, good luck with that.)
Because landing men on the moon was done by engineers, to solve a problem based on scientific principles like orbital mechanics. This is being done by non-engineers, to solve a problem based on legalese crap crammed in by lobbyists. (But they're the best non-engineers that money can buy!) It's all about the A-ark types vs the B-ark types.
I think you meant to say "Dear Accenture", but I like your Freudian slip. A dead Ass-enter is a good Ass-enter.
Now we really will be able to call it "buttcoin", and unironically, too.
There are already updated and WGA-cracked versions of XP if you don't mind trusting a torrent from TPB.
This is why making a good thermostat is hard. Because everyone is used to the weather where they live, and most people can't conceive of the things that someone living elsewhere on the planet might need. Hot, cold, rainy, etc., or all of the above, single- or multi-stage, oil or gas or electric heat, not to mention people who need to monitor and control temperature remotely, like a summer house or a rental.
So some guy says "Do this, it works great!" and someone who lives 1000 miles way thinks "What a fucking idiot."
Cloud based isn't inherently bad. The problem is that if your thermostat is behind NAT, you can't talk to it when you're away without a lot of TCP/IP-fu, which no average person would want to do even if they could.
I have a Filtrete 3M50 (made by Radio Thermostat) which polls the cloud server with JSON over HTTP every 3 minutes or so, passing up the current status and pulling down any schedule changes or overrides. No firewall crap is necessary. The cloud is just the way that I can monitor/control it when I'm away. It also has a side-benefit that if my internet breaks, it shows the time that it was last working.
Yes, humidity control is good if you can get it, or even just "run the fan at least 10 minutes per hour". The problem I have is when night temperatures outside are around 65-75F, and the inside temperature stays below the set point and the AC doesn't come on, the humidity goes up and I can't sleep. My thermostat doesn't have either of those features, but I set my schedules so that both cooling and heating set it lower at night than during the day.
What would you want USB or ethernet for?
For when you're out of town and there's an unexpected freeze warning? I've had a 3M50 thermostat for a couple of years now. Last month I found another one cheap at a thrift store. Then a couple of weeks ago my mom was in a panic about freezing weather at her house while she was out of town. Not only could it have let the temperature be changed remotely, but it also has a mode to automatically switch from heat to cool (kind of important in Texas where it can be freezing one night then 80F a couple of days later). So it's getting installed the next time I'm down there, but I have to do something about that flaky WAP too.
Having had to write code to talk to PIN pads back in the late '90s, they still should never have had the unencrypted PINs, even with access to memory in a POS terminal. The PIN pad should be epoxy potted, with have the encryption key (and maybe even its entire firmware) injected into battery-backed RAM. The only thing leaving that PIN pad should be an encrypted blob based on the PIN. I even vaguely recall having to provide the card number to the PIN pad, making it a sort of salt to the encryption process. And the credit card clearinghouse is the only place with the other half of the key.
Or at least that's how they did it in the late '90s, before everything became a PC running Win-duh. And that's presumably why you still enter your PIN on a little device in the corner of the checkout area with its own keypad and card reader. It's not easy to put a RAM-sniffer trojan into a keypad running on an embedded microprocessor.
For those Europeans out there, the reason you have chip-and-PIN now (from what I've been able to tell) was that your PINs weren't encrypted end-to-end from potted keypad to clearinghouse, making it much easier to intercept them. So they added the chip to help with that. Also, in the US we typically only use PINs for debit, not for regular credit cards. I think the track-2 data is used by the credit card companies to ensure that someone didn't make a clone card from the account number alone, and the CVV is used for telephone transactions. Both require access to the original card to create a forged copy. (Access like, say, a card skimmer. Or human eyes.) Most gas stations also require you to enter your zip code when you pay at the pump as a further fail-safe against a stolen or forged card. (I learned that the hard way the time I entered 55555, and had to call my credit card company to get it straightened out.)
The thing that bugs me most is that they were on a network that was routed to the entire internet. Yeah, I don't think a POS terminal needs to be able to check Google or Facebook, much less "chernyykhod.ru". Even simply putting them on a VLAN with a very restrictive firewall to the public internet would have avoided the problem. And a RFC-1918 network doesn't count if it's behind a NAT router, since these packets went outbound from the POS. Belt and suspenders.
But sometimes animals do not display such logic.
Such as pokemon, who have non-transitive strengths and weaknesses like in the game Rock Paper Scissors.
Then how did the NES manage to kill off the C64 and IBM PC?
Why are you so obsessive about this? The crash was also due to crapware flooding the market in the console space, and companies like Atari and Coleco trying to double down on 8-bit home computers. And it was nobody wanting to invest in making consoles because the business had been declared dead. It could even have been due to market changes from the last of the baby boomers going to college. I was one of them, graduating from high school in 1982, right on the line between baby boomer and GenX.
Home computers (the C64/PC being the last of them) replaced the consoles of the 1978-1984 era, then in late 1985 the NES brought back console gaming to the US. The NES and PC both killed off the C64. It didn't matter to me, though. I went straight from TRS-80 to Macintosh and didn't even have a game console for years until I started collecting game cartridges back in the mid '90s.
Of course I am talking about the US market here. Europe and Japan didn't have the crash of 1984, and 8-bit home computers and (even cassette tape in the UK, apparently!) kept going for quite a while.
(of course I meant 127 instead of 128, it's been a long day)
If you want to be really obscure, pick 128.xxx.xxx.xxx, where xxx are all three digit numbers. In some OSes, only 128.0.0.1 is loopback, in others, 128/8 is loopback. (Cue the joke where the script kiddie hacker was dared to hack some random 128 address.)