I meant encrypt the zip before sending it through the Tubes to your file server. If Customs is going to make a forensic image or take your hard drive, yeah, they'll find deleted files or data fragments in swap. If you're that worried, wipe your data files, temp files and swap, and throw away the wipe program.
I'm not sure of the very first video game I saw. It might have been Pong in a department store or an arcade Space Invaders. I was really young and couldn't really play with any skill, just pressed the buttons and died. One year for Christmas I did get a 3 in 1 home video game with a clone of Pong and a side scrolling racer. It was pretty cheaply made and something broke on it later that year. It was fun while it lasted, but I wasn't really amazed by it.
We already had the race to the bottom in the oil market. Hello, $13 a barrel in the 90's? As supplies tighten up even more, expect to see a retrenchment to a form of mercantilism or resource nationalism.
Ah, that's nothing. This 75 year old retired lady in Sweden has a 40Gbps connection. However it is experimental, and her son is Peter Löthberg, apparently one of the pioneers of the Internet in Sweden. Still, lots of people in Sweden and S Korea can get 100Mbps broadband.
I thought about that: putting a broken, crashed hard drive into the laptop, but it just ends up more of a hassle. Where do you stash the working drive? What if they confiscate the drive or the whole laptop? Better hope there wasn't sensitive data on the drive before because you can't wiped a crashed drive. OTOH, nobody's gonna do an expensive forensic recovery on Joe Schmo's laptop drive.
That's really the solution. Keep an absolute minimum of working files on the laptop, and keep your files online either on a trusted server or in encrypted archives. It's sad, but if you want minimal hassles with Customs, be prepared to log in to a bare Windows with hardly any files and let them poke around. Don't have anything that looks remotely like encryption software. A zip program with AES encryption and a secure file wipe utility should cover it. You have nothing to be nervous or guilty about. Individuals and businesses have a legitimate right to protect sensitive personal info like financials. However, Customs is given a lot of discretion in searches. You're better off avoiding the hassle to begin with.
There's a whole other issue with photos and videos separate from copyright: getting a model release from the people shown in the picture. See this earlier case of Virgin Mobile Australia using a CC licensed photo off Flickr in an ad campaign.
That may or may not help. You could write an MBR rootkit to only run once to install the malicious kernel driver. That way it would survive an MBR restore, but there would also be evidence of the rootkit in the Windows filesystem or registry. Still, you're right that using a boot CD to scan the boot sectors and filesystem will bypass the rootkit.
Oil is already too expensive to use for power plants. Liquid fuels sell at a premium because all our transport runs on internal combustion, and the fuel produced by this process goes into a completely different market from the one for grid electricity. Electricity is probably still more efficient for harnessing solar energy, but as long as we need liquid fuels for transport, we'll need to consider ways like this to reduce oil usage.
Personally, I'll worried more about the production rate of 2.5 gal of fuel per day from each unit. They better work on scaling it up to be useful.
For the smog problem, this will help a lot if it replaces those smoky two stroke scooters. As far as efficiency, it may not be that bad either. Two stroke engines aren't very efficient for their power. They're just cheap and simple to build. If cars carry just twice the passengers of motorbikes, they'll be even on fuel consumption. Of course, with the way whole families pile onto a motorbike, it'll be interesting to see how many they fit into a car.
Nah, Toyota don't need their innovation. They already own Daihatsu, one of the leading makers of kei class mini cars in Japan. They're limited to 660cc, three cylinders 64 hp, and limited length and width, and they're very popular because of lower tax rates (and crowded cities). Base prices are usually around 1,000,000 Yen.
Suzuki is actually the leading seller, and they have one of the cheapest, the Kei A for 760,000 Yen. So just over $7,000 for a mini car made in Japan with a 55hp engine. TFA says Maruti Suzuki sells a competing 800 mini car in India for $4,800. It looks like a rebadged Suzuki Alto made in India. Some of that difference comes from production costs and some from cheaper equipment like a 800cc, 37 hp engine. It'll still take some serious corner cutting to get that down to $2,500, but it could be done especially if you're starting from a clean sheet and disregarding Japanese safety and emissions standards.
I've done a demo ride on one of these scooters. It has a 27 hp motor and accelerates as quickly as a 400cc motor scooter like a Suzuki Burgman. It even felt like the electronics were limiting torque off the line to help with smooth starts. Range is still limited at about 45 mi in city driving, and it's not suited for patrolling highways with a 62 mph top speed. If the NYPD could live with the limited range, this scooter would work fine in Manhattan.
Well, that's a more complete list than I could put together, but here's another x86 SoC that's been used in cheapo consumer wifi routers. Supported by OpenWRT.
Two nits to pick. One that helps and one that hurts your argument.
1. Most rental agencies have a fast checkin program for frequent renters with no paperwork. Sign up for the program, make reservation, pick your car and drive out the lot. Saves a lot of time.
2. A $42K Expedition is a luxury/vanity item, not a practical purchase. If you needed cargo or passenger capacity you could easily buy a basic minivan or full size pickup for $22K. Then you're just paying the extra fuel costs.
Thanks for calculating that. Looking back, I think $40 a day is low. It's more like a promo rate. If you want to reserve near peak season it'll be higher. A weekly rate will be lower per day, say, if you're going on a road trip, but the average rental rate will like be higher. OTOH rates for compact cars are dirt cheap, like under $15 a day off-peak.
You're right about the cost of electricity not being fixed fixed, although it's more stable being a public utility. It's better to measure efficiency in kWh AC/mile, and have some equivalency formula to compare to gasoline consumption.
It can cost thousands of dollars to get a driver's license in Japan and Europe because of rigorous training and testing. It doesn't stop them from driving.
Yeah, I think they call it "utility anxiety". I used to have a compact pickup. It was cheap and useful for the occasional cargo hauling, but man, it sucked to drive. It was slow, handled like shit, and had no traction with an empty bed. If you need the passenger and cargo room less than 5% of the time, you're better off renting a minivan or truck for $40 a day (or less if you shop around).
My friend figured it out too. He's a motorcyclist who didn't always own a car. So what did he do for commuting on the occasional rainy day in California? Rental car. It was by far the cheapest option.
The point is that a three wheeler is licensed as a motorcycle, and motorcycles have no safety requirements beyond lights, mirrors, helmet for the rider, and not blowing up/falling apart on the road. Aptera is voluntarily building in safety features and doing crash tests. I think the driver will still have to wear a helmet in most states.
This is civil suit, so guilt and innocence don't apply as they would in a criminal case. The question is liability, and it's decided by the preponderance of evidence, not proof of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. In civil suits, there's a long tradition of preserving evidence for discovery, so won't be surprised if Torrentspy is severely sanctioned. That said, the DOJ sure gets off easy when they're protecting their own. Pretty impossible to ignore the double standard except for the 26% dead enders.
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I meant encrypt the zip before sending it through the Tubes to your file server. If Customs is going to make a forensic image or take your hard drive, yeah, they'll find deleted files or data fragments in swap. If you're that worried, wipe your data files, temp files and swap, and throw away the wipe program.
Just encrypt your zip file with AES. 7-zip is Free if you don't trust proprietary Winzip.
You're not far off the mark. War has always been an outlet for surplus young male population.
I'm not sure of the very first video game I saw. It might have been Pong in a department store or an arcade Space Invaders. I was really young and couldn't really play with any skill, just pressed the buttons and died. One year for Christmas I did get a 3 in 1 home video game with a clone of Pong and a side scrolling racer. It was pretty cheaply made and something broke on it later that year. It was fun while it lasted, but I wasn't really amazed by it.
We already had the race to the bottom in the oil market. Hello, $13 a barrel in the 90's? As supplies tighten up even more, expect to see a retrenchment to a form of mercantilism or resource nationalism.
Looking at the specs I think Tata just reinvented the 2CV. 600cc, 2 cyl, rear mounted. Probably the same performance, and better efficiency.
I thought 2CV was affordable in its day. It's just expensive now because it's collectible.
ATRAC-only music players, CD rootkits, and now this? Sony is toast.
Ah, that's nothing. This 75 year old retired lady in Sweden has a 40Gbps connection. However it is experimental, and her son is Peter Löthberg, apparently one of the pioneers of the Internet in Sweden. Still, lots of people in Sweden and S Korea can get 100Mbps broadband.
I thought about that: putting a broken, crashed hard drive into the laptop, but it just ends up more of a hassle. Where do you stash the working drive? What if they confiscate the drive or the whole laptop? Better hope there wasn't sensitive data on the drive before because you can't wiped a crashed drive. OTOH, nobody's gonna do an expensive forensic recovery on Joe Schmo's laptop drive.
That's really the solution. Keep an absolute minimum of working files on the laptop, and keep your files online either on a trusted server or in encrypted archives. It's sad, but if you want minimal hassles with Customs, be prepared to log in to a bare Windows with hardly any files and let them poke around. Don't have anything that looks remotely like encryption software. A zip program with AES encryption and a secure file wipe utility should cover it. You have nothing to be nervous or guilty about. Individuals and businesses have a legitimate right to protect sensitive personal info like financials. However, Customs is given a lot of discretion in searches. You're better off avoiding the hassle to begin with.
There's a whole other issue with photos and videos separate from copyright: getting a model release from the people shown in the picture. See this earlier case of Virgin Mobile Australia using a CC licensed photo off Flickr in an ad campaign.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/22/0319252
Osram. It's a brand.
That may or may not help. You could write an MBR rootkit to only run once to install the malicious kernel driver. That way it would survive an MBR restore, but there would also be evidence of the rootkit in the Windows filesystem or registry. Still, you're right that using a boot CD to scan the boot sectors and filesystem will bypass the rootkit.
Oil is already too expensive to use for power plants. Liquid fuels sell at a premium because all our transport runs on internal combustion, and the fuel produced by this process goes into a completely different market from the one for grid electricity. Electricity is probably still more efficient for harnessing solar energy, but as long as we need liquid fuels for transport, we'll need to consider ways like this to reduce oil usage.
Personally, I'll worried more about the production rate of 2.5 gal of fuel per day from each unit. They better work on scaling it up to be useful.
For the smog problem, this will help a lot if it replaces those smoky two stroke scooters. As far as efficiency, it may not be that bad either. Two stroke engines aren't very efficient for their power. They're just cheap and simple to build. If cars carry just twice the passengers of motorbikes, they'll be even on fuel consumption. Of course, with the way whole families pile onto a motorbike, it'll be interesting to see how many they fit into a car.
Nah, Toyota don't need their innovation. They already own Daihatsu, one of the leading makers of kei class mini cars in Japan. They're limited to 660cc, three cylinders 64 hp, and limited length and width, and they're very popular because of lower tax rates (and crowded cities). Base prices are usually around 1,000,000 Yen.
Suzuki is actually the leading seller, and they have one of the cheapest, the Kei A for 760,000 Yen. So just over $7,000 for a mini car made in Japan with a 55hp engine. TFA says Maruti Suzuki sells a competing 800 mini car in India for $4,800. It looks like a rebadged Suzuki Alto made in India. Some of that difference comes from production costs and some from cheaper equipment like a 800cc, 37 hp engine. It'll still take some serious corner cutting to get that down to $2,500, but it could be done especially if you're starting from a clean sheet and disregarding Japanese safety and emissions standards.
I've done a demo ride on one of these scooters. It has a 27 hp motor and accelerates as quickly as a 400cc motor scooter like a Suzuki Burgman. It even felt like the electronics were limiting torque off the line to help with smooth starts. Range is still limited at about 45 mi in city driving, and it's not suited for patrolling highways with a 62 mph top speed. If the NYPD could live with the limited range, this scooter would work fine in Manhattan.
Well, that's a more complete list than I could put together, but here's another x86 SoC that's been used in cheapo consumer wifi routers. Supported by OpenWRT.
Two nits to pick. One that helps and one that hurts your argument.
1. Most rental agencies have a fast checkin program for frequent renters with no paperwork. Sign up for the program, make reservation, pick your car and drive out the lot. Saves a lot of time.
2. A $42K Expedition is a luxury/vanity item, not a practical purchase. If you needed cargo or passenger capacity you could easily buy a basic minivan or full size pickup for $22K. Then you're just paying the extra fuel costs.
Thanks for calculating that. Looking back, I think $40 a day is low. It's more like a promo rate. If you want to reserve near peak season it'll be higher. A weekly rate will be lower per day, say, if you're going on a road trip, but the average rental rate will like be higher. OTOH rates for compact cars are dirt cheap, like under $15 a day off-peak.
You're right about the cost of electricity not being fixed fixed, although it's more stable being a public utility. It's better to measure efficiency in kWh AC/mile, and have some equivalency formula to compare to gasoline consumption.
It can cost thousands of dollars to get a driver's license in Japan and Europe because of rigorous training and testing. It doesn't stop them from driving.
Yeah, I think they call it "utility anxiety". I used to have a compact pickup. It was cheap and useful for the occasional cargo hauling, but man, it sucked to drive. It was slow, handled like shit, and had no traction with an empty bed. If you need the passenger and cargo room less than 5% of the time, you're better off renting a minivan or truck for $40 a day (or less if you shop around).
My friend figured it out too. He's a motorcyclist who didn't always own a car. So what did he do for commuting on the occasional rainy day in California? Rental car. It was by far the cheapest option.
The point is that a three wheeler is licensed as a motorcycle, and motorcycles have no safety requirements beyond lights, mirrors, helmet for the rider, and not blowing up/falling apart on the road. Aptera is voluntarily building in safety features and doing crash tests. I think the driver will still have to wear a helmet in most states.
This is civil suit, so guilt and innocence don't apply as they would in a criminal case. The question is liability, and it's decided by the preponderance of evidence, not proof of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. In civil suits, there's a long tradition of preserving evidence for discovery, so won't be surprised if Torrentspy is severely sanctioned. That said, the DOJ sure gets off easy when they're protecting their own. Pretty impossible to ignore the double standard except for the 26% dead enders.