That's what my track would look like. I just wander all around the store, grabbing stuff as it catches my eye, contemplating items I'll never purchase, backtracking and crisscrossing the store at random.
That's exactly the kind of information they want: "Customers keep moving from the tools department to kitchenwares, then back to tools. Maybe we should move the two closer together.. or, luggage sales are slow so lets put the luggage between the two departments to get more walk-by traffic".
You may think your behavior is unique, but aggregated against tens of thousands of people, you might be part of the larger trend.
Or the easiest solution that has no possible detriment: don't even care.
Why the hell should I give a damn that a store has a VERY vague indication of where my phone's MAC address is inside it, with no way to tie a name or any other identifying information to it?
It's not neccessarily that vague - with enough appropriately placed AP's (and not as many as you think - their software can look at signal strength from multiple nodes to triangulate your position), they can know your location to within a few square meters - precise enough to link your phone to your purchase when you go to the cash register (they may not be able to single you out the first time you visit, but after a couple purchases they will). Depending on what information you give when you check out (phone number, store credit card, etc), they can link your phone to you personally.
You should really be doing that anyways, if you're not using WiFi, you're still wasting electricity having it broadcasting to the world. Smartphone battery life is bad enough without wasting any on wifi when you're not needing it.
I leave my Wifi (and Bluetooth) turned on all the time and notice very little difference in battery life as compared to when I turn it off. The display on my phone (Galaxy Nexus) is always the top battery user.
Putting it in Airplane mode (thus shutting off the CDMA radio) makes a much more significant difference than just shutting off wifi and bluetooth. Shutting off LTE and using CDMA-only also makes a bit of a difference.
It's not a rumor. He did, in fact, withhold his birth certificate. He knew all along that to quell rumors he should release the long form. He chose not to for several years. He's special.
Well no, he tried to *not* be special by not circumventing Hawaiian law to obtain a record that a normal citizen would not have access to. He released the only document that Hawaii would provide to him as proof of birth:
every judicial forum that has addressed the matter, and Hawaiian government officials—among whom a consensus has been reached that the document released by the Obama campaign is indeed his official birth certificate.
Obama was not entitled to receive a copy of the "long form":
oshua Wisch, a spokesman for the Hawaii Attorney General's office, stated in 2011 that the original "long form" birth certificate — described by Hawaiian officials as a "record of live birth" kept in the archives of the Hawaii Department of Health is "... a Department of Health record and it can't be released to anybody", including President Obama. Wisch added that state law does not authorize photocopying such records
Legally, there was no way to obtain his long form.
Finally, in 2011, realizing that he *was* special, and that the long form might save everyone a lot of hassle, Obama requested a waiver from normal records release policy:
On April 22, 2011, Obama asked Loretta Fuddy, director of the Hawaii Department of Health, for certified copies of his original Certificate of Live Birth ("long-form birth certificate").[46] Accompanying the letter was a written request from Judith Corley, Obama's personal counsel, requesting a waiver of the department's policy on computer-generated certificates. Corley stated that granting the waiver would relieve the department of the burden of repeated inquiries into the President's birth records.[47]
On April 25, 2011, Fuddy approved the request and witnessed the copying process as the health department's registrar issued the certified copies. The same day, Corley personally visited the department headquarters in Honolulu to pay the required fee on Obama's behalf, and received the two requested certified copies of the original birth certificate, an accompanying letter from Fuddy attesting to the authenticity of same, and a receipt for the processing fee. Fuddy said that she had granted the exception to its normal policy of issuing only computer-generated copies by virtue of Obama's status, in an effort to avoid ongoing requests for the birth certificate.[48][49]
Enough with the fake outrage.
What else could he release? How about some school transcripts? Bush had his stolen & released. Why wouldn't someone do the same with Obama's? Oh, right. He's special.
Well I can't answer why there is no one willing to risk criminal prosecution by stealing and releasing his school transcripts - why don't you do it? I'm not sure what it would prove if official state birth records and even birth announcements in 2 different Hawaiian newspaper are not enough to satisfy birthers. School records just prove attendance, I've never seen any agency accept a school transcript as proof of citizenship
I read in a different article that it's a peering point of Netflix's choice. And peering equipment of Netflix's choice. Oh, and the ISP pays for maintaining Netflix's equipment at the peering point.
Netflix responded to Time Warner's accusation, telling Multichannel News that "Open Connect provides Netflix data at no cost to the location the ISP desires and doesn't seek preferential treatment.
Basically, Netflix is saying "we don't care if your network can handle the bandwidth, we'll only give your customer SuperHD if you'll set up your network our way". The right way to do it is for Netflix to set throughput and latency targets and say "if your ISP can provide x and y, you'll get SuperHD".
Well, I think they are saying "We're tired of paying internet transit costs to give your customers the content they are demanding - give us a 10Gig port to your network at the major peering point of your choice (and if your network spans more than one goegraphical area, we'll pipe the content to that area for you) and we'll pump the content directly into your network and save ourselves a bundle while giving your customers a better experience.
I thought Netflix was agreeing to deliver the content to the peering point of the ISP's choice - the only cost to the ISP is a port on their border gateway and a cheap peering interconnect.
I can't be bothered to find out, but I assumed this was part of the peering dance that has been going on for two decades or whatever between all players on the internet.
Basically the network engineering dept knows its universally a win to peer for "free" as much as possible with as many other people as possible rather than pay for transit. However the MBAs on both sides of a peering arrangement love to dance around with daydreams of bonuses in their heads of getting the other guy to purchase transit instead of freely peer. So historically you've always had idiotic showdowns (slowdowns?) and dumb marketing tricks (we only peer with other tier 1 providers... whats a tier 1 provider? Well its anyone we either a) want to peer with or b) couldn't get to pay us for transit, that's the def of a tier 1 provider).
So you can't be bothered to find out anything about what Netflix is asking, but you know that Netflix is asking ISP's to pay money?
Netflix isn't charging ISPs to be part of its private network, but the ISPs do have to meet a list of requirements. For example, the ISP must connect to the same peering locations as used by the Netflix network and establish connections of at least 10Gbps. By requiring the use of its own network, Multichannel News notes that "Netflix saves money on third-party CDN transit fees by connecting directly with ISPs.
So it sounds like Netflix isn't asking for money, but stands to make some significant cost savings with little additional cost to the ISP.
Basically they are arguing, the new service from Netflix requires lots of investments and upgrades to the network, and they will pass it on to all the customers because FCC prohibits charging more for Netflix customers alone, even if they are the only ones benefiting by these upgrades.
To me it is a stretch. The ISPs are not fools. If the Netflix customers want special high speed access, they will be forced to cough extra cash for that privilege. And that money will upgrade the network for all customers. They may not be able to tack on a "fee for being a netflix customer". But they surely will tack on a fee for "50 Mbps service with guaranteed network latency of less than 200 millisecond" or whatever is the technical spec.
I thought Netflix was agreeing to deliver the content to the peering point of the ISP's choice - the only cost to the ISP is a port on their border gateway and a cheap peering interconnect.
It's not just infastructure though, the OpenConnect program also has a component where the ISP builds a computer and Netflix manages it, pushes Netflix content to the machine and then the machine talks BGP to the ISP's network and hands the content out locally. So It's not that the ISP is building out infastructure, the ISP is having to spend money to provide a better experience for Netflix. It would seem that this would lower the amount of bandwidth the ISP needs to the internet but when we looked Netflix required 5 Gb of throughput to their caching server....so where's the savings?
If they only need 5 gbit of throughput to the caching server, that sounds like a win for any ISP of significant size -- that's only about 1600 customers with a 3mbit stream, surely an ISP with 100K customers sees more than 1.6% of their customers streaming a movie during prime time.
I say open-source it. Much like the NRA, the more they communicate with the American public, the less they're liked. Some of the biggest helpers in Obama's success were the off-color comments of Romney (47%), and those two wacko abortion Republicans. Another lost election or two and they might figure out they don't represent the majority of Americans anymore.
So you're saying republican voters are so weak minded that a few off color comments and a couple crazy abortion opponents is enough to make them vote for the other party (or perhaps worse, to not vote at all)?
It's easy to do a lot of things, it's hard to do many things well without experience and trial/error.
Such being the case, why make a big stink about it? Release it, and save everyone the trouble.
Well, from an administration who would not release a birth certificate...
Why is this rumor still alive? In April 2008 he released his "Certificate of Live Birth" and in 2011 he released his "Long form" birth certificate. Both of which were declared authentic by Hawaiian State officials.
If the code is open, we might then have a notion of the scope, depth, and detail with which all of us are being tracked by the party. And that would probably be shocking to all of us who thought we had some level of privacy left. So I don't expect it to be open for just that reason.
It's not the Democratic Party that is doing the tracking - its the commercial data sources that they buy their data from. And you don't need to look at Obama's source code to see the depth that we are all tracked.
In this sense, the decision to mothball the tech would be a violation of the developers’ ethical principles.
Unless the developers were tricked into thinking they were developing an open source software platform, I don't see where ethics come in. Why would a business release the software that is widely believed to have given it a competitive advantage?
. "It’s going to send a very bad signal to engineers who might consider working on the next election cycle in 2016," says Rathee. "It shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how we work."
There are lots of programmers that understand confidentiality and realize that their code is never going to be open sourced. Is there a growing body of developers that want everything to be open sourced and free to the world?
The things we built off of open source should go back to the public," says Manik Rathee, who worked as a user experience engineer with OFA. The team relied on open source frameworks like Rails, Flask, Jekyll and Django.
Isn't this exactly the type of thing Rails, Flask, Jekyll and Django were built for? To allow developers to quickly develop and deploy applications? This is the kind of FUD that makes corporations afraid to use open source - they think that if they take advantage of an Open Source framework then they are obligated to open source their code even if it's used only for an in-house application.
I don't see the source code for Google's search engine or Facebook's core code available for download even though both companies take advantage of FOSS software in their infrastructure -- that's not to say that they haven't released some of their support code, but the "secret sauce" that runs the business is still private.
Them: "What do we do?!?!!?!?" You: "This is UNIX. I know this."
That's almost how it will happen, except when I sit down and see a 3D virtual reality interface I'll say "This isn't Unix!" then I'll hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 to pull up a command line prompt, then proclaim "Keyboard...How quaint!" and start typing wildly.
Stop warning people! The Unix 32 bit Epoch cleanup is my retirement plan! I'll make a killing fixing legacy software when the kids out of school only know how to point and click through their GUI IDE's and don't know the difference between a short, an int, a long, and a long long... and time_t is completely foreign to them.
As others have pointed out before, check the laws of the countries that you are leaving and traveling to regarding encrypted materials and/or encryption software and what's legal (and risky) at each border crossing.
It's trivial to encrypt your data in a way that won't be obvious upon casual inspection and offers some plausible deniability. Like hide your encrypted porn volume 10 minutes into your "Hot Sexxy Babes and Donkeys" movie. No one will notice the encrypted data upon casual inspection, and if it's discovered, it's just random noise and you can complain that your DVD drive must have corrupted it.
The Facebook posts were written either to be a standalone sentence, or part of a small paragraph, while the sentences from the books were extracted from a much larger overall work. Of course "Omg, hang up your cell phone and put on your shirt!" is going to be more memorable than "She walked in the door."
So it can supply one amp for 44 hours...so in less than 2 days, the battery will be dead. My car often sits for 2 days or longer without starting it.
Even if I could keep the power consumption below 0.5 amps, that's still enough power draw to drain the battery in less than a week and I don't want to have to remember to switch the camera off when I leave the car at the airport for 5 days.
Do companies really have to design these project platforms when there are android cell phones that can be had for under $50? They come built in with a small touchscreen, wifi, a low res camera, battery, accelerometer, vibrator, mic, a weak speaker, and possibly a small physical keyboard. Virgin Mobile almost always has a no contract phone for $30-$50.
There is also an overabundance of bad ESN phones on ebay for $15-$30. While there are issues with supporting thievery, not all bad ESN phones have been stolen, some are really just lost and found by others. Either way, the phones have been branded bad and unless re-purposed, represent a waste on society. Do companies really need to design/build these platforms when there are so many used phones that already litter the world?
Most of what I'd use the Pi for doesn't need a screen, but does need I/O ports, so I'd choose the PI just for the GPIO ports (and I2C, SPI, CSI, etc). Plus there's already a large developer community around the platform and they are all using the exact same hardware, while if I buy a random phone off eBay, it would be harder to find help.
If you want a gadget to hold your hand through that process get a DS / 3DS and the Americas Test Kitchen software. Infinitely superior to whatever you've cobbled together.
I see Osgeld has already covered your camera system. Your solution is bulkier, more of a hassle than, and less reliable than dozens of different off-the-shelf products. But I guess if your time is worth nothing and you don't care how your truck looks it could be worth it since you maybe saved tens of dollars.
Many of the cheap off-the-shelf products that are in the price range of a Pi + cheap camera have a habit of temporarily freezing or losing video while they switch files and/or when they lose power. So it's entirely possible that his solution works better than others in the price range. And given that he's added a 1TB drive to it, his solution probably meets his needs better than other solutions out there since few have the ability to add a hard drive.
Gee...I guess my RaspberryPi in my kitchen linked up to an old touchscreen and custom recipe software is trash and pointless. Or the RaspberryPi in my truck hooked up to a bumper-cam and 1TB hard drive is something my safety conscious family doesn't care about. Just because you lack the creativity and imagination to put these amazing contraptions to good use doesn't mean that there aren't people out there who don't. Idiot.
How do you handle gracefully shutting down when you turn your truck off? How do you interface your camera to the Pi?
I've been thinking about building a Pi based "dash cam" since I haven't been impressed with the existing dash cams. Though I'd probably write my video to an SD card or USB Memory stick rather than hard drive. I'm just not sure how to get a graceful shutdown after I turn off the car - maybe a supercapacitor with enough stored power to let it shut down when it senses loss of 12V power?
As everyone should know, modern airliners are pressurized. Now it is generally considered a BAD idea if it was to depressurize in midflight by say a window or door blowing out. How do you make it hard for this to happen? Well, you make the door open to the INSIDE, so that when locked and the airplane is under pressure, the pressure will press the door INTO the frame, making it impossible to blow out. This is why airline doors open INTO the aircraft and NOT out.
Basic stuff right? Only a company with no care for safety would change it.
Well boeing did it, so they could shove more cargo in it.
But surely then they would build the door really really well and have it tested really really well?
no... they did not and a LOT of people died when the door inenvitably did blow out and brought down the airplane.
Boeing has ALWAYS taken shortcuts and never given a shit about the risk and the FAA has always let them get away with it. Read up on the cargo door, it took a second incident for Boeing to be told to fix it BUT it was allowed to keep the outside opening door despite it being an obvious weak area.
You have to remember that in airliners, the interests are so gigantic that there is gigantic pressure on the engineers to find shortcuts and for those who are charged to oversee safety to look away so that their nations industry isn't hampered.
There are thousands of engineering decisions in any plane that come down to a tradeoff between cost, performance, and safety. It wasn't just the "non-plug" door that caused the accident, but an electrical problem and faulty latch combined with the door design allowed the door to blow off.
What good is a much safer aircraft if no one can afford to fly in it because it's so expensive to purchase and operate? There's nothing wrong with designing the aircraft to allow more cargo (thus lowering operating expenses), as long as risks are mitigated in other parts of the design - the 747 is one of the safest aircraft in the world, despite the design of the cargo door.
I know you are trying to be funny, but you are just showing that you are ignorant racist. Try not to be both at the same time. The batteries are Japanese.
Young Doc: No wonder this circuit failed. It says "Made in Japan". Marty McFly: What do you mean, Doc? All the best stuff is made in Japan. Young Doc: Unbelievable.
You didn't even point out the most glaring problem with my post -- the fact that Boeing *is* the OEM, so no matter what batteries they used, they are OEM batteries.
Is this a laptop camera on the desk? Whose idea was it to shoot up the poor woman's nose?
Why is the video such poor quality and out of focus? Decent HD cameras are not expensive - even GoPro videos shot from the head of a mountain biker look better than this. How about a little front lighting - why is the background lit better than her face?
And is it *really* neccessary to make us sit through a 30 second commercial (with no relevance at all to technology) before we can see the video?
How embarassing for Boeing to have a $200M plane grounded because of a battery problem. They should have bought quality OEM batteries instead of going for the cheap Chinese imports on EBay.
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Who taped a phone to a blind wombat on PCP?
That's what my track would look like. I just wander all around the store, grabbing stuff as it catches my eye, contemplating items I'll never purchase, backtracking and crisscrossing the store at random.
That's exactly the kind of information they want: "Customers keep moving from the tools department to kitchenwares, then back to tools. Maybe we should move the two closer together.. or, luggage sales are slow so lets put the luggage between the two departments to get more walk-by traffic".
You may think your behavior is unique, but aggregated against tens of thousands of people, you might be part of the larger trend.
Or the easiest solution that has no possible detriment: don't even care.
Why the hell should I give a damn that a store has a VERY vague indication of where my phone's MAC address is inside it, with no way to tie a name or any other identifying information to it?
It's not neccessarily that vague - with enough appropriately placed AP's (and not as many as you think - their software can look at signal strength from multiple nodes to triangulate your position), they can know your location to within a few square meters - precise enough to link your phone to your purchase when you go to the cash register (they may not be able to single you out the first time you visit, but after a couple purchases they will). Depending on what information you give when you check out (phone number, store credit card, etc), they can link your phone to you personally.
You should really be doing that anyways, if you're not using WiFi, you're still wasting electricity having it broadcasting to the world. Smartphone battery life is bad enough without wasting any on wifi when you're not needing it.
I leave my Wifi (and Bluetooth) turned on all the time and notice very little difference in battery life as compared to when I turn it off. The display on my phone (Galaxy Nexus) is always the top battery user.
Putting it in Airplane mode (thus shutting off the CDMA radio) makes a much more significant difference than just shutting off wifi and bluetooth. Shutting off LTE and using CDMA-only also makes a bit of a difference.
It's not a rumor. He did, in fact, withhold his birth certificate. He knew all along that to quell rumors he should release the long form. He chose not to for several years. He's special.
Well no, he tried to *not* be special by not circumventing Hawaiian law to obtain a record that a normal citizen would not have access to. He released the only document that Hawaii would provide to him as proof of birth:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_citizenship_conspiracy_theories
every judicial forum that has addressed the matter, and Hawaiian government officials—among whom a consensus has been reached that the document released by the Obama campaign is indeed his official birth certificate.
Obama was not entitled to receive a copy of the "long form":
oshua Wisch, a spokesman for the Hawaii Attorney General's office, stated in 2011 that the original "long form" birth certificate — described by Hawaiian officials as a "record of live birth" kept in the archives of the Hawaii Department of Health is "... a Department of Health record and it can't be released to anybody", including President Obama. Wisch added that state law does not authorize photocopying such records
Legally, there was no way to obtain his long form.
Finally, in 2011, realizing that he *was* special, and that the long form might save everyone a lot of hassle, Obama requested a waiver from normal records release policy:
On April 22, 2011, Obama asked Loretta Fuddy, director of the Hawaii Department of Health, for certified copies of his original Certificate of Live Birth ("long-form birth certificate").[46] Accompanying the letter was a written request from Judith Corley, Obama's personal counsel, requesting a waiver of the department's policy on computer-generated certificates. Corley stated that granting the waiver would relieve the department of the burden of repeated inquiries into the President's birth records.[47]
On April 25, 2011, Fuddy approved the request and witnessed the copying process as the health department's registrar issued the certified copies. The same day, Corley personally visited the department headquarters in Honolulu to pay the required fee on Obama's behalf, and received the two requested certified copies of the original birth certificate, an accompanying letter from Fuddy attesting to the authenticity of same, and a receipt for the processing fee. Fuddy said that she had granted the exception to its normal policy of issuing only computer-generated copies by virtue of Obama's status, in an effort to avoid ongoing requests for the birth certificate.[48][49]
Enough with the fake outrage.
What else could he release? How about some school transcripts? Bush had his stolen & released. Why wouldn't someone do the same with Obama's? Oh, right. He's special.
Well I can't answer why there is no one willing to risk criminal prosecution by stealing and releasing his school transcripts - why don't you do it? I'm not sure what it would prove if official state birth records and even birth announcements in 2 different Hawaiian newspaper are not enough to satisfy birthers. School records just prove attendance, I've never seen any agency accept a school transcript as proof of citizenship
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/obamabirth.php
I read in a different article that it's a peering point of Netflix's choice. And peering equipment of Netflix's choice. Oh, and the ISP pays for maintaining Netflix's equipment at the peering point.
This article quotes Netflix saying otherwise:
http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/01/timewarner-net-neutrality-foes-cry-foul-netflix-requirements-for-super-hd/
Netflix responded to Time Warner's accusation, telling Multichannel News that "Open Connect provides Netflix data at no cost to the location the ISP desires and doesn't seek preferential treatment.
Basically, Netflix is saying "we don't care if your network can handle the bandwidth, we'll only give your customer SuperHD if you'll set up your network our way". The right way to do it is for Netflix to set throughput and latency targets and say "if your ISP can provide x and y, you'll get SuperHD".
Well, I think they are saying "We're tired of paying internet transit costs to give your customers the content they are demanding - give us a 10Gig port to your network at the major peering point of your choice (and if your network spans more than one goegraphical area, we'll pipe the content to that area for you) and we'll pump the content directly into your network and save ourselves a bundle while giving your customers a better experience.
I thought Netflix was agreeing to deliver the content to the peering point of the ISP's choice - the only cost to the ISP is a port on their border gateway and a cheap peering interconnect.
I can't be bothered to find out, but I assumed this was part of the peering dance that has been going on for two decades or whatever between all players on the internet.
Basically the network engineering dept knows its universally a win to peer for "free" as much as possible with as many other people as possible rather than pay for transit. However the MBAs on both sides of a peering arrangement love to dance around with daydreams of bonuses in their heads of getting the other guy to purchase transit instead of freely peer. So historically you've always had idiotic showdowns (slowdowns?) and dumb marketing tricks (we only peer with other tier 1 providers... whats a tier 1 provider? Well its anyone we either a) want to peer with or b) couldn't get to pay us for transit, that's the def of a tier 1 provider).
So you can't be bothered to find out anything about what Netflix is asking, but you know that Netflix is asking ISP's to pay money?
Here's a few more details:
http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/01/timewarner-net-neutrality-foes-cry-foul-netflix-requirements-for-super-hd/
Netflix isn't charging ISPs to be part of its private network, but the ISPs do have to meet a list of requirements. For example, the ISP must connect to the same peering locations as used by the Netflix network and establish connections of at least 10Gbps. By requiring the use of its own network, Multichannel News notes that "Netflix saves money on third-party CDN transit fees by connecting directly with ISPs.
So it sounds like Netflix isn't asking for money, but stands to make some significant cost savings with little additional cost to the ISP.
Basically they are arguing, the new service from Netflix requires lots of investments and upgrades to the network, and they will pass it on to all the customers because FCC prohibits charging more for Netflix customers alone, even if they are the only ones benefiting by these upgrades.
To me it is a stretch. The ISPs are not fools. If the Netflix customers want special high speed access, they will be forced to cough extra cash for that privilege. And that money will upgrade the network for all customers. They may not be able to tack on a "fee for being a netflix customer". But they surely will tack on a fee for "50 Mbps service with guaranteed network latency of less than 200 millisecond" or whatever is the technical spec.
I thought Netflix was agreeing to deliver the content to the peering point of the ISP's choice - the only cost to the ISP is a port on their border gateway and a cheap peering interconnect.
It's not just infastructure though, the OpenConnect program also has a component where the ISP builds a computer and Netflix manages it, pushes Netflix content to the machine and then the machine talks BGP to the ISP's network and hands the content out locally. So It's not that the ISP is building out infastructure, the ISP is having to spend money to provide a better experience for Netflix. It would seem that this would lower the amount of bandwidth the ISP needs to the internet but when we looked Netflix required 5 Gb of throughput to their caching server....so where's the savings?
If they only need 5 gbit of throughput to the caching server, that sounds like a win for any ISP of significant size -- that's only about 1600 customers with a 3mbit stream, surely an ISP with 100K customers sees more than 1.6% of their customers streaming a movie during prime time.
I say open-source it. Much like the NRA, the more they communicate with the American public, the less they're liked. Some of the biggest helpers in Obama's success were the off-color comments of Romney (47%), and those two wacko abortion Republicans. Another lost election or two and they might figure out they don't represent the majority of Americans anymore.
So you're saying republican voters are so weak minded that a few off color comments and a couple crazy abortion opponents is enough to make them vote for the other party (or perhaps worse, to not vote at all)?
It's easy to do a lot of things, it's hard to do many things well without experience and trial/error.
Such being the case, why make a big stink about it? Release it, and save everyone the trouble.
Well, from an administration who would not release a birth certificate...
Why is this rumor still alive? In April 2008 he released his "Certificate of Live Birth" and in 2011 he released his "Long form" birth certificate. Both of which were declared authentic by Hawaiian State officials.
What else could he release?
If the code is open, we might then have a notion of the scope, depth, and detail with which all of us are being tracked by the party. And that would probably be shocking to all of us who thought we had some level of privacy left. So I don't expect it to be open for just that reason.
It's not the Democratic Party that is doing the tracking - its the commercial data sources that they buy their data from. And you don't need to look at Obama's source code to see the depth that we are all tracked.
In this sense, the decision to mothball the tech would be a violation of the developers’ ethical principles.
Unless the developers were tricked into thinking they were developing an open source software platform, I don't see where ethics come in. Why would a business release the software that is widely believed to have given it a competitive advantage?
. "It’s going to send a very bad signal to engineers who might consider working on the next election cycle in 2016," says Rathee. "It shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how we work."
There are lots of programmers that understand confidentiality and realize that their code is never going to be open sourced. Is there a growing body of developers that want everything to be open sourced and free to the world?
The things we built off of open source should go back to the public," says Manik Rathee, who worked as a user experience engineer with OFA. The team relied on open source frameworks like Rails, Flask, Jekyll and Django.
Isn't this exactly the type of thing Rails, Flask, Jekyll and Django were built for? To allow developers to quickly develop and deploy applications? This is the kind of FUD that makes corporations afraid to use open source - they think that if they take advantage of an Open Source framework then they are obligated to open source their code even if it's used only for an in-house application.
I don't see the source code for Google's search engine or Facebook's core code available for download even though both companies take advantage of FOSS software in their infrastructure -- that's not to say that they haven't released some of their support code, but the "secret sauce" that runs the business is still private.
Them: "What do we do?!?!!?!?"
You: "This is UNIX. I know this."
That's almost how it will happen, except when I sit down and see a 3D virtual reality interface I'll say "This isn't Unix!" then I'll hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 to pull up a command line prompt, then proclaim "Keyboard...How quaint!" and start typing wildly.
Stop warning people! The Unix 32 bit Epoch cleanup is my retirement plan! I'll make a killing fixing legacy software when the kids out of school only know how to point and click through their GUI IDE's and don't know the difference between a short, an int, a long, and a long long... and time_t is completely foreign to them.
As others have pointed out before, check the laws of the countries that you are leaving and traveling to regarding encrypted materials and/or encryption software and what's legal (and risky) at each border crossing.
It's trivial to encrypt your data in a way that won't be obvious upon casual inspection and offers some plausible deniability. Like hide your encrypted porn volume 10 minutes into your "Hot Sexxy Babes and Donkeys" movie. No one will notice the encrypted data upon casual inspection, and if it's discovered, it's just random noise and you can complain that your DVD drive must have corrupted it.
The Facebook posts were written either to be a standalone sentence, or part of a small paragraph, while the sentences from the books were extracted from a much larger overall work. Of course "Omg, hang up your cell phone and put on your shirt!" is going to be more memorable than "She walked in the door."
Why shut it down? it draws ~1amp surely your car battery can supply that for several days without issue
Here's specs from an Optima car battery (an AGM battery that handles deep discharge much better than standard lead plate batteries):
http://jci_media.s3.amazonaws.com/9613/4583/5078/REDTOP_Full_Specs_Sheet.pdf .0030 ohms
Open Circuit Voltage (Fully charged): 12.8 volts
Internal Resistance (Fully charged):
Capacity: 44 Ah (C/20)
Reserve Capacity: BCI: 90 minutes
So it can supply one amp for 44 hours...so in less than 2 days, the battery will be dead. My car often sits for 2 days or longer without starting it.
Even if I could keep the power consumption below 0.5 amps, that's still enough power draw to drain the battery in less than a week and I don't want to have to remember to switch the camera off when I leave the car at the airport for 5 days.
Do companies really have to design these project platforms when there are android cell phones that can be had for under $50? They come built in with a small touchscreen, wifi, a low res camera, battery, accelerometer, vibrator, mic, a weak speaker, and possibly a small physical keyboard. Virgin Mobile almost always has a no contract phone for $30-$50.
There is also an overabundance of bad ESN phones on ebay for $15-$30. While there are issues with supporting thievery, not all bad ESN phones have been stolen, some are really just lost and found by others. Either way, the phones have been branded bad and unless re-purposed, represent a waste on society. Do companies really need to design/build these platforms when there are so many used phones that already litter the world?
Most of what I'd use the Pi for doesn't need a screen, but does need I/O ports, so I'd choose the PI just for the GPIO ports (and I2C, SPI, CSI, etc). Plus there's already a large developer community around the platform and they are all using the exact same hardware, while if I buy a random phone off eBay, it would be harder to find help.
Custom recipe software? Puhlease.
Look up recipe online.
Read recipe.
Cook recipe.
If you want a gadget to hold your hand through that process get a DS / 3DS and the Americas Test Kitchen software. Infinitely superior to whatever you've cobbled together.
I see Osgeld has already covered your camera system. Your solution is bulkier, more of a hassle than, and less reliable than dozens of different off-the-shelf products. But I guess if your time is worth nothing and you don't care how your truck looks it could be worth it since you maybe saved tens of dollars.
Many of the cheap off-the-shelf products that are in the price range of a Pi + cheap camera have a habit of temporarily freezing or losing video while they switch files and/or when they lose power. So it's entirely possible that his solution works better than others in the price range. And given that he's added a 1TB drive to it, his solution probably meets his needs better than other solutions out there since few have the ability to add a hard drive.
Gee...I guess my RaspberryPi in my kitchen linked up to an old touchscreen and custom recipe software is trash and pointless. Or the RaspberryPi in my truck hooked up to a bumper-cam and 1TB hard drive is something my safety conscious family doesn't care about. Just because you lack the creativity and imagination to put these amazing contraptions to good use doesn't mean that there aren't people out there who don't. Idiot.
How do you handle gracefully shutting down when you turn your truck off? How do you interface your camera to the Pi?
I've been thinking about building a Pi based "dash cam" since I haven't been impressed with the existing dash cams. Though I'd probably write my video to an SD card or USB Memory stick rather than hard drive. I'm just not sure how to get a graceful shutdown after I turn off the car - maybe a supercapacitor with enough stored power to let it shut down when it senses loss of 12V power?
As everyone should know, modern airliners are pressurized. Now it is generally considered a BAD idea if it was to depressurize in midflight by say a window or door blowing out. How do you make it hard for this to happen? Well, you make the door open to the INSIDE, so that when locked and the airplane is under pressure, the pressure will press the door INTO the frame, making it impossible to blow out. This is why airline doors open INTO the aircraft and NOT out.
Basic stuff right? Only a company with no care for safety would change it.
Well boeing did it, so they could shove more cargo in it.
But surely then they would build the door really really well and have it tested really really well?
no... they did not and a LOT of people died when the door inenvitably did blow out and brought down the airplane.
Boeing has ALWAYS taken shortcuts and never given a shit about the risk and the FAA has always let them get away with it. Read up on the cargo door, it took a second incident for Boeing to be told to fix it BUT it was allowed to keep the outside opening door despite it being an obvious weak area.
You have to remember that in airliners, the interests are so gigantic that there is gigantic pressure on the engineers to find shortcuts and for those who are charged to oversee safety to look away so that their nations industry isn't hampered.
There are thousands of engineering decisions in any plane that come down to a tradeoff between cost, performance, and safety. It wasn't just the "non-plug" door that caused the accident, but an electrical problem and faulty latch combined with the door design allowed the door to blow off.
What good is a much safer aircraft if no one can afford to fly in it because it's so expensive to purchase and operate? There's nothing wrong with designing the aircraft to allow more cargo (thus lowering operating expenses), as long as risks are mitigated in other parts of the design - the 747 is one of the safest aircraft in the world, despite the design of the cargo door.
How does this get modded up? The batteries are Japanese (Yuasa) in origin, sourced by a French company (Alcatel/Thales).
But they still bought them on eBay, right?
I know you are trying to be funny, but you are just showing that you are ignorant racist. Try not to be both at the same time. The batteries are Japanese.
Young Doc: No wonder this circuit failed. It says "Made in Japan".
Marty McFly: What do you mean, Doc? All the best stuff is made in Japan.
Young Doc: Unbelievable.
You didn't even point out the most glaring problem with my post -- the fact that Boeing *is* the OEM, so no matter what batteries they used, they are OEM batteries.
Is this a laptop camera on the desk? Whose idea was it to shoot up the poor woman's nose?
Why is the video such poor quality and out of focus? Decent HD cameras are not expensive - even GoPro videos shot from the head of a mountain biker look better than this. How about a little front lighting - why is the background lit better than her face?
And is it *really* neccessary to make us sit through a 30 second commercial (with no relevance at all to technology) before we can see the video?
How embarassing for Boeing to have a $200M plane grounded because of a battery problem. They should have bought quality OEM batteries instead of going for the cheap Chinese imports on EBay.