Humans are the reservoir for dengue in the western hemisphere, so naturally efforts should be focused on elminating this reservoir in the more southern parts of the area before the disease is able to spread to the more important countries north of Mexico.
What could go wrong? I don't know, maybe a disease that kills 22 thousand people? Sorry developing country kids, you gotta die, but hey, at least you don't have to worry about something that might somehow be even worse, like the dangers of unknown consequences, in other words, I don't have an actual argument, but I do have the first world heebie-jeebies, so here's a non-falsifiable appeal to ignorance. Try not to die of hemorrhagic fever while I vacuously muse about precaution from my overpriced organic café. Man, I'm glad you 'What could possibly go wrong' people weren't around when some crazy dude tried fighting disease by injecting people with dead viruses.
I'm not an entomologist, nor an ecologist, but I do recognize the standard MO among genetic engineering opposition, and this looks like the same horse shit type of opposition we see when dealing with genetically engineered crops, so unless someone can give me an actual reason (no, Jurassic Park doesn't count) as to why this is not worth trying, I fail to see the problem with this.
Used to live down there in dengue country. I am definitely concerned about what the potential outcome is. I can't tell you how many times I've been sprayed in the face by pesticide trucks, too, while walking down the street. It's a pretty nasty disease. However, the last time Brazilians let a lab experiment out in the wild, it caused all sorts of unintended consequences (yesI Know this was an accident). I am not saying this is as likely to happen, but do we know for sure how these mosquitoes will be once they breed in the wild? Or are they only releasing females, and if so, will they all die before becoming sexually mature?
Its purpose is to permit some states to look inside your PCM while performing a smog test. OBD-II is all about emissions. That's what the malfunction indicator light ("MIL") tells you: that your vehicle is failing its ongoing internal emissions test. Manufacturers may also implement a CEL or Check Engine Light, but since 1996 the MIL has been mandatory and the CEL has been optional in the USA.
As far as I know only 3 states require the use of OBD-II (where applicable) diagnostics for state vehicle inspections. I haven't lived in California for some number of years, but they only used to check for the engine light. I know because I had removed the bulb from the CEL before in order to pass smog. Only 17 of 50 states require any sort of vehicle inspection. So that suggests to me that it has nothing to do with spying. And what personal information is stored on your ECU anyway? I've never seen anything but the diagnostic output of a few sensors. What's the problem in that?
If you have a problem with the list of malfunctions that are a part of the OBD-II standard then you should work to have that changed.
Right. Let me just whip out several million dollars for lobbying. You may notice that it smells of ass, because that's where it's going to have to come from.
You could certainly help form a PAC. If enough people cared, you would get your money and your laws. But the fact of the matter is that the codes are available to you for just a few hundred dollars if you really needed that information.
a simple typo means that I must not know anything about how OBD-II works.
No, a repeated error suggests it.
People misspell the same word repeatedly in a document. IT doesn't mean they don't know how the word is used. It means that they either had a lapse in spelling ability, or perhaps have some sort of learning disorder that makes it difficult for them to spell. It's not exactly like my browser tells me that I switched some letters in an acronym. I've had a busy day, and I didn't proof my writing as thoroughly as I should have. You knew what I meant, but decided to use an ad hominem attack against me and suggest that I don't know what I was talking about. Yet you already admitted earlier in your post that I did know the specifications. You admitted that there are general purpose and custom codes, just as I indicated. So why do you resort to this attack?
If you want to force the dealerships out and force the manufacturers to play nice with consumers that is one thing. But do you honestly believe that is going to happen?
Nope. But since the dealerships exist primarily to help the automakers bone us, I don't actually care what happens to them. Most of the jobs they "create" involve overcharging people, and the rest are wrenchin' jobs which will exist whether they're within a dealership or not.
The dealerships exist to make money, like any business. If you have a proposal that would protect customers, then I would support it. But just abolishing dealerships would not be a net win for anyone. This is something that has far reaching implications. Transportation is a key issue in our society. You have to have a plan in place to prevent the manufacturers from screwing us worse than dealers could ever imagine being possible.
You do understand that the law which requires ODB-II ports on cars is precisely to protect consumers?
False. The law which requires OBD-II ports on cars is precisely to spy on consumers, and to force them to use the mandated equipment which is designed to spy on them. Otherwise, the law would have demanded that we have full access to all the codes.
And how exactly is OBD-II used to spy on me? My car has no wireless transmitter. It's not broadcasting any diagnostic information. I can reset the ECU and clear any logged diagnostics at any point in time (again that is part of the open standard). So what exactly are they spying on?
You realize that there are specific malfunctions that have specific error codes that all manufacturers must use? Those codes are available.
You realize that those codes only apply to a small subset of possible powertrain problems (specifically, engine and transmission) and that all other codes may be as proprietary as they like, even brake codes? For example, a generic code reader won't pull brake codes from most GM products at all.
If you have a problem with the list of malfunctions that are a part of the OBD-II standard then you should work to have that changed. Anything that is not proprietary should be open and available without the manufacturer's consent. Common ABS codes are part of the the OBD-II standard. I know because I have used said codes to diagnose a failed master cylinder.
The protocol is open.
And manufacturers follow just enough of it for the smog machines to be able to check on the things that the smog machines check on. Everything else may or may not be standard, and probably isn't. Instead of a four-digit code, most of the codes from VAG vehicles are five-digit codes. And there are only two companies which have produced functional third-party K-line interfaces which are capable of interfacing to modern BOSCH Motronic without simply licensing their interfaces, and then many copies of one of those makers' products which tend to ship with an old version of their software which has not been updated to recognized those clones. Some vehicles will also respond to multi-thousand-dollar scan tools from Snap-On or similar. But in order to legally diagnose a modern VW product you're going to have to spend at least $250 for K-Line (not that modern any more) or $350 for CAN.
I don't know what brand of cars you're dealing with (other than VW and GM, obviously) but I have used my OBD-II reader on cars from many different manufacturers (Ford, Subaru, Honda, Toyota, Saturn, VW, Nissan/Infiniti, and maybe a few others) and have never had an issue with non-compliant codes. As I mentioned, non-standard codes are allowed - but only for failures that are not covered by the law. And furthermore, there are companies that will sell you the software that will read the encrypted codes for almost every major manufacturer if you're willing to pony up the dough. My $200 reader will take codes from almost any manufacturer with the included software plus $200/manufacturer cost to get the encryption key needed to read the codes. There are a few (mostly exotic) manufacturers they do not support. Are you buying that cheap Chinese shit off eBay for $20 that probably doesn't work right to begin with? And I've never had an issue working on a VW with my device. The K-line on a VW is for diagnostics with the stereo. It should not interfere with your OBD-II reader.
. So I am not sure how your post makes any sense in that regard.
That's because you don't know very much about how OBD-II is actually used in practice. That probably explains why you keep calling it ODB-II. It's not a member of the Wu-Tang clan.
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You do understand that the law which requires ODB-II ports on cars is precisely to protect consumers? You realize that there are specific malfunctions that have specific error codes that all manufacturers must use? Those codes are available. The protocol is open. You can download open source ODB-II diagnostic software for Linux. So I am not sure how your post makes any sense in that regard. Manufacturers are able to use custom codes, and even encrypt those codes. But they have to be for malfunctions that are beyond the scope of the codes that are required by law.
And in any event, these dealership laws were enacted (in many states) 50+ years ago. See originally independent dealers took on a lot of risk in buying and selling cars. The manufacturers, once they had built up enough money, wanted to open competing dealerships and charge the independents extra to sell the car. The end result would have been disastrous for the independent dealers that helped support the manufacturers in their infancy. Since Tesla does not have any independent dealerships, this can appear pretty silly. But this law prevented Toyota from switching everything over to Scion and then creating manufacturer based dealerships that they could then use to tank the independent dealers. I'm not sure how I feel about this protectionism. It would be nice for Tesla to sell cars however works best for them. However, is it fair to let Tesla do this and not let Toyota spin up a new brand and sell that exclusively? Or do we make the manufacturers buy out all the dealerships? What if a dealer doesn't want to sell? And will that help or hurt consumers?
No a lawyer, but I thought "probable cause" was that the original CAUSE for the police stop and search has to be legit. If you can't arrest the driver for "forcing someone off the road" then anything found after that wasn't supported by the search.
Or maybe I'm living in a fantasy world. I'm just not too enthused to live in a country where the "right to imprison" supersedes the right to liberty. Pot shouldn't be against the law -- but it is, because of stupidity and it means we have to buy a lot of anti depressants to compensate.
But really, society isn't breaking down because we don't have enough people in prison. A person should be a real menace to society in order to justify the government taking away their liberty. Prison is a sick, sad place. And I don't want to make this an easy process for the state.
The 4th amendment, as well as case law, expressly prohibits the police doing certain things during a Terry stop. They can only detain you briefly, but they only require reasonable suspicion that you committed a crime. The call from the citizen counts as reasonable suspicion. It was the smell of pot that gave the officer probable cause to search. I'm not a huge fan of the outcome - strictly because the tipster could have been a government agent acting on evidence that was obtained in violation of the 4th amendment. But I do think that the police should be able to Terry stop someone after receiving a complaint of illegal or dangerous activity.
On 1, how honest is the "it will interfere with emergency services" reason? I've heard police in particular have unofficially switched to cell phones for sensitive information. And I'd imagine that there are always people willing to sell the government new and improved technology to "protect" against nefarious "terrorists" who might theoretically stage an attack and then mess with ambulances (and the lobbyists would of course assure everyone that this was 800% likely to happen.)
I'm just wondering if that's actually a nonsense argument the FCC uses to hold onto every bit of power they have. But I know nothing about it, which is why I'm asking.
It depends on what frequency you are transmitting on. If you're on the same frequency, you may be interfering. I think a lot of larger cities are using the same type of radio technology - radios that support frequency hopping. They hop channels so fast that they are very difficult to jam without blanketing a huge swath of the available spectrum. More than likely any switch to cell phones would be to prevent the "sensitive" conversation from being recorded by their government agency. You wouldn't want to talk about your big drug deal, even in code, over the department radio channel if you can just call a cell phone.
This isn't collected universally. If you want an example of that, I've not paid and I've had an account for well over a year.
Seems it's mostly restricted to iPhone users, as they'd be far more likely to pay.
Actually the app costs $1 for iPhone and is free after that. I got it for free for iPHone and when I later switched to Android, I never had to pay - despite the app clearly stating that it was $1 after the first year. I've been using it for years. I mostly use it to message people who are not in the US, or who work in areas that do not have great cell phone service.
I suppose someone has to mention obvious things, so you have this article. I had an iPad 2 and it was great and lasted me several iterations. I only just got a new one for Christmas this year. So... yes. People who have one already aren't going to run out and just get a new one because it's new. And there are some decent Android ones out there for people who don't want an iPad.
Same with the iPod, everything can play music now. My iPad and phone included, so sure. The idea of an iPod that ONLY plays music is sort of a dated concept. My wife loves her nano and small iPods for the gym, which makes sense for working out and instances where you only need music. But in general, things like browsing the web or running apps is basically expected now, regardless of the ecosystem or OS. Now, I don't want to _have_ to buy a phone to play music, but when I can store it all on a device that I'm already carrying around, why would I bother with an extra device like an iPod (or any music player).
I have (admittedly old) iPod touch in addition to my phone. I used to travel a lot for work and found that I disliked having a dead phone when I got off a long flight. Granted that's a pretty niche market. We use iPod touches for dev/testing at work, and I write software for some hardware that won't work with anything except an iPod touch (credit card case like they use at the apple store). Again, those are all pretty niche areas.
This building is only 530m high. Even at a 30mph you could do that in about 20 seconds and thats assuming you're going all the way from the bottom to the top. For that distance this lift would save around a whole 5-6 seconds (not counting acceleration time). BFD.
Sounds like an expensive technology showcase rather than something that will be a major extra benefit.
The point of this elevator isn't to save you or I a couple of seconds on our trip. It's undoubtedly the increase the throughput on the elevator itself so that it can service more users in a day. This will allow them to save space on an extra bank of elevator shafts. At least, that is what I would expect. That is a real concern. Elevators just waste space - they don't make any money for the property owner. But your property is worthless without adequate lifts.
Strange, I have a Buffalo WZR-D1800H (a current model) and the wifi is excellent. Far better than my old Asus N16 and the crap that my ISP gave me (Virgin Superhub 2). 5GHz in particular is damn fast, which is the main reason I got it was 2.4GHz has become unusable around here.
Maybe you had a duff one? The only time I used an Airport Extreme was when I was at a friends house and it was crap, but that could have been for any number of reasons unrelated to the Airport itself.
Could be the model? I have three WZR-HP-G300NH2's and all I use them for is firewall/router. They're relatively inexpensive (I believe I paid $70 a piece for them), but they were unreliable. The WiFi would stop working (though the SSID would still broadcast, no traffic would go anywhere). The older they got, the worse the problem seemed to be. I still use them to handle firewall, but that's it.
The milstd seems to be designed so the tablet will survive the sort of things that happen in combat that are recoverable for the user (if you come under fire, diving to the ground is likely to break any civilian tablet when you land on it), but not survive the sort of thing where the user has no real chance to recover the tablet....
Meh. That's what WP is for. Put in that lock code incorrectly 10 times? Screw wiping the encryption key from the device. Just ignite some WP and watch that flash cook. Burn baby, burn!
My issue in this case is assume he didn't have weed in his car, what exactly were they going to do to him? They track him down, pull him over and then what do they do? They have an anonymous call saying he forced someone off the road, but no evidence of it. They have no video, no witnesses, not even a real person willing to say they were run off the road. So they pull him over and ask him if he ran someone off the road? And when he obviously says no they just let him go? There was nothing they could do to him unless there is some other secondary issue like in this case.
I can see now a lot of anonymous tips coming in from pay phones near where cops are hanging out. They suspect someone has drugs in their car, they just make an anonymous tip about the car doing something bad and then they have a reason to pull them over.
I would expect the officer to pull him over, make sure he's licensed and insured, and then explain that there was a complaint that he was driving recklessly. Just as I would expect the police to come and knock on my neighbor's door for if someone called and claimed they heard someone being beaten inside. They don't have to issue a citation, or search the person's property. Just the act of stopping the person can dissuade them from continuing their behavior. The moral of the story is to not drive like a total jackass when you have 30 pounds of marijuana in your car.
I'm perfectly fine with the police acting on tips from citizens. Where this becomes a problem is when the "anonymous tipster" is actually a government agent. If you allow this sort of tip to be used, it can definitely be abused by the government.
Just get a Buffalo. Good OpenWRT/DD-WRT support (some come pre-installed with DD-WRT), good price, good hardware. Linksys have been shit since the late 90s when I first encountered them, and the WRT54G was never that great to begin with (how many hardware revisions were there?)
The current Buffalo routers have TERRIBLE WiFi. I mean absolute garbage. I bought a Buffalo router and am using it as my firewall and LAN router. I bought an Airport Extreme to actually provide WiFi service to my home. With the Buffalo I had to reboot the device every 4-6 hours minimum just to use the WiFi. I could not copy a 5GB file over WiFi as that was guaranteed to screw the router up and WiFi would stop working all together. The Airport is expensive as hell but I haven't had to touch the thing in 3 years. I would use that as my only device if only it let me configure things like dynamic DNS support, etc.
Disclosure: I've never been to NYC, and I don't know how these horses are treated. If they're generally treated poorly, then disregard my comments.
That said, it makes me wonder if the animal rights activists have ever met working horses. Working animals are bred for their jobs and they tend to enjoy them. My brother owned a draft horse and there was nothing he liked better than pulling. If pulling teams are animal cruelty, then so is playing fetch with your retriever.
I rescued a hunting dog (she's actually mixed breed, but 50/50 mix). She lives for the thrill of the chase. She is miserable if she sees a squirrel or a raccoon and she doesn't get to chase it. She is miserable if she doesn't get to track scents. It really is what she loves to do. As you say, these horses will be just as miserable if they don't have work to do. They'll get bored and find ways to cause trouble./P.
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I watched a few promotional videos for the Vipukirven on YouTube. People lined up at trade shows to try out this new axe, and the promo guys were kept busy heaping the resulting split firewood onto a huge pile. It occurred to me that touring a "new axe" around to trade shows and getting passers-by to split enormous piles of wood for you for free is a great business model for a firewood vendor...
Of course, if you can sell the occasional axe (for US$200+), so much the better!
Probably cheaper to hire a couple of migrant workers than it is to pay the cost of attending a tradeshow.
As this threat to growth becomes more evident, investors will become less attracted to investments in the utility sector.
It's about time that power companies realize that their most important goal is not in providing customers with a quality source of electricity, but in making investors as much money as possible.
I will only state that if you would like your utility to switch to greener electricity generation techniques, then you'd better hope that they get investors to help subsidize that cost. Otherwise they will have to increase rates drastically so that they can build up enough capital that they can afford the cost. It's not any different than a government agency taking out a bond to build a power plant. I'd rather they have a steady stream of money to maintain and build new facilities than wait for the system to get into disrepair and then jack up the price. They can't satisfy investors if they don't provide quality electricity. They can't provide consistent and quality electricity without capital. I'm not saying that this particular proposal makes sense, but you do not want your utility going bankrupt. Not even if you think you're completely off the grid.
Stop! You there, with the rifle, in the foxhole. You are under arrest! You need to report to the Courthouse so I can find out if I'm allowed to shoot you!
Like I said, you aren't specifically targeting that soldier in the foxhole. He just happens to be in your way. They sought this guy out and blew him up using a drone strike. There was no firefight. And do you really think the drone strikes help our cause? I would expect it to just polarize the people against us that much more.
Well, in one case specifically the US was targeting a US Citizen who was overseas and supposedly involved in terror campaigns. He had no trial, even in absentia, which convicted him of the crime. The administration just decided it was okay to find him, launch a Hellfire missile at the vehicle he was in, and end the problem for good. It's entirely different if you find out ex post facto that one of the participants was a US citizen.
As an additional benefit, I've always found making notes in a notebook to be less intrusive in meetings or interviews than typing or using a stylus on a tablet (although changing social norms may make the latter less intrusive eventually), and the act of writing to be less intrusive to my own thought processes than typing (maybe just because no red squiggly lines appear under my notes as I type, or text reflowing, drawing the eye as it does so), but that might just be me, or I might just be showing my age.
I always use the computer for taking notes in meetings. I can type at over 200WPM and my handwriting is painfully slow in comparison. I used to do transcription work to pay the bills through my days at the university. I could quite literally record every word of a meeting if I wanted to. I find that its easier to follow the meeting if I make a quick electronic note and then return my attention to the person talking. It's important to have the right keyboard for this. Many people like their MX keyboards with mechanical switches, but they are very loud and very rude during meetings. It is considerate to avoid making loud keyboard noises.
There are about 300 000 000 boobs in the USA, and only about 40 000 women die of breast cancer each year. Divide 40 000 by 300 000 000 and you have a proof (in your mindset) that there is no link between boobs and breast cancer.
Well you have to remember that boobs are part of an organism. Breast cancer can only be caused by living cells. So again it sounds like its a problem with organisms and not a problem that exists due to inanimate objects. It's much easier to get people to volunteer to raise money for breast cancer research than it is to get people to address social/economic issues, however.
I've got this giant pipe wrench that's been taking a beating (well... giving one) for decades. I can't tell you how many passwords and pin codes I've cracked with that thing. Best hacking tool I ever bought.
At the time there were limited arms (you took about 2 minutes to reload) vs able to empty a couple clips in that same amount of time, now.
First of all, the red coats could fire their weapon at a rate of about 3-4 rounds per minute. Second of all, it's not difficult to empty a clip at all. A stripper clip is designed to empty very quickly. The real rate of fire is how quickly you can empty a magazine. That is the rate of fire for a weapon, and not a tool used to reload the magazine itself (a clip). And anyway, it was perfectly legal to own swords and other weapons back then. I'm not saying that we should allow people to own anything they want. I am just saying you don't have a very good understanding of these weapons.
A few years ago we had some Chinese exchange workers come and work for us. At the end of their stint, they did a bit of a presentation about similar work in China. They did a bit of background on China, and were still calling Taiwan part of China! I was a bit flabbergasted...
Different perspectives or propaganda I guess. Eye opener either way.
Did you know that Taiwan also calls itself China? There is the PRC (the mainland side) and ROC (Taiwan side). The first is the Peoples Republic of China, and the second is the Republic of China. They both consider the other to be part of their territory and are waiting for the other side to give in to their leadership.
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Humans are the reservoir for dengue in the western hemisphere, so naturally efforts should be focused on elminating this reservoir in the more southern parts of the area before the disease is able to spread to the more important countries north of Mexico.
Too lat.e You can already get Dengue in Texas!
What could go wrong? I don't know, maybe a disease that kills 22 thousand people? Sorry developing country kids, you gotta die, but hey, at least you don't have to worry about something that might somehow be even worse, like the dangers of unknown consequences, in other words, I don't have an actual argument, but I do have the first world heebie-jeebies, so here's a non-falsifiable appeal to ignorance. Try not to die of hemorrhagic fever while I vacuously muse about precaution from my overpriced organic café. Man, I'm glad you 'What could possibly go wrong' people weren't around when some crazy dude tried fighting disease by injecting people with dead viruses.
I'm not an entomologist, nor an ecologist, but I do recognize the standard MO among genetic engineering opposition, and this looks like the same horse shit type of opposition we see when dealing with genetically engineered crops, so unless someone can give me an actual reason (no, Jurassic Park doesn't count) as to why this is not worth trying, I fail to see the problem with this.
Used to live down there in dengue country. I am definitely concerned about what the potential outcome is. I can't tell you how many times I've been sprayed in the face by pesticide trucks, too, while walking down the street. It's a pretty nasty disease. However, the last time Brazilians let a lab experiment out in the wild, it caused all sorts of unintended consequences (yesI Know this was an accident). I am not saying this is as likely to happen, but do we know for sure how these mosquitoes will be once they breed in the wild? Or are they only releasing females, and if so, will they all die before becoming sexually mature?
And how exactly is OBD-II used to spy on me?
Its purpose is to permit some states to look inside your PCM while performing a smog test. OBD-II is all about emissions. That's what the malfunction indicator light ("MIL") tells you: that your vehicle is failing its ongoing internal emissions test. Manufacturers may also implement a CEL or Check Engine Light, but since 1996 the MIL has been mandatory and the CEL has been optional in the USA.
As far as I know only 3 states require the use of OBD-II (where applicable) diagnostics for state vehicle inspections. I haven't lived in California for some number of years, but they only used to check for the engine light. I know because I had removed the bulb from the CEL before in order to pass smog. Only 17 of 50 states require any sort of vehicle inspection. So that suggests to me that it has nothing to do with spying. And what personal information is stored on your ECU anyway? I've never seen anything but the diagnostic output of a few sensors. What's the problem in that?
If you have a problem with the list of malfunctions that are a part of the OBD-II standard then you should work to have that changed.
Right. Let me just whip out several million dollars for lobbying. You may notice that it smells of ass, because that's where it's going to have to come from.
You could certainly help form a PAC. If enough people cared, you would get your money and your laws. But the fact of the matter is that the codes are available to you for just a few hundred dollars if you really needed that information.
a simple typo means that I must not know anything about how OBD-II works.
No, a repeated error suggests it.
People misspell the same word repeatedly in a document. IT doesn't mean they don't know how the word is used. It means that they either had a lapse in spelling ability, or perhaps have some sort of learning disorder that makes it difficult for them to spell. It's not exactly like my browser tells me that I switched some letters in an acronym. I've had a busy day, and I didn't proof my writing as thoroughly as I should have. You knew what I meant, but decided to use an ad hominem attack against me and suggest that I don't know what I was talking about. Yet you already admitted earlier in your post that I did know the specifications. You admitted that there are general purpose and custom codes, just as I indicated. So why do you resort to this attack?
If you want to force the dealerships out and force the manufacturers to play nice with consumers that is one thing. But do you honestly believe that is going to happen?
Nope. But since the dealerships exist primarily to help the automakers bone us, I don't actually care what happens to them. Most of the jobs they "create" involve overcharging people, and the rest are wrenchin' jobs which will exist whether they're within a dealership or not.
The dealerships exist to make money, like any business. If you have a proposal that would protect customers, then I would support it. But just abolishing dealerships would not be a net win for anyone. This is something that has far reaching implications. Transportation is a key issue in our society. You have to have a plan in place to prevent the manufacturers from screwing us worse than dealers could ever imagine being possible.
You do understand that the law which requires ODB-II ports on cars is precisely to protect consumers?
False. The law which requires OBD-II ports on cars is precisely to spy on consumers, and to force them to use the mandated equipment which is designed to spy on them. Otherwise, the law would have demanded that we have full access to all the codes.
And how exactly is OBD-II used to spy on me? My car has no wireless transmitter. It's not broadcasting any diagnostic information. I can reset the ECU and clear any logged diagnostics at any point in time (again that is part of the open standard). So what exactly are they spying on?
You realize that there are specific malfunctions that have specific error codes that all manufacturers must use? Those codes are available.
You realize that those codes only apply to a small subset of possible powertrain problems (specifically, engine and transmission) and that all other codes may be as proprietary as they like, even brake codes? For example, a generic code reader won't pull brake codes from most GM products at all.
If you have a problem with the list of malfunctions that are a part of the OBD-II standard then you should work to have that changed. Anything that is not proprietary should be open and available without the manufacturer's consent. Common ABS codes are part of the the OBD-II standard. I know because I have used said codes to diagnose a failed master cylinder.
The protocol is open.
And manufacturers follow just enough of it for the smog machines to be able to check on the things that the smog machines check on. Everything else may or may not be standard, and probably isn't. Instead of a four-digit code, most of the codes from VAG vehicles are five-digit codes. And there are only two companies which have produced functional third-party K-line interfaces which are capable of interfacing to modern BOSCH Motronic without simply licensing their interfaces, and then many copies of one of those makers' products which tend to ship with an old version of their software which has not been updated to recognized those clones. Some vehicles will also respond to multi-thousand-dollar scan tools from Snap-On or similar. But in order to legally diagnose a modern VW product you're going to have to spend at least $250 for K-Line (not that modern any more) or $350 for CAN.
I don't know what brand of cars you're dealing with (other than VW and GM, obviously) but I have used my OBD-II reader on cars from many different manufacturers (Ford, Subaru, Honda, Toyota, Saturn, VW, Nissan/Infiniti, and maybe a few others) and have never had an issue with non-compliant codes. As I mentioned, non-standard codes are allowed - but only for failures that are not covered by the law. And furthermore, there are companies that will sell you the software that will read the encrypted codes for almost every major manufacturer if you're willing to pony up the dough. My $200 reader will take codes from almost any manufacturer with the included software plus $200/manufacturer cost to get the encryption key needed to read the codes. There are a few (mostly exotic) manufacturers they do not support. Are you buying that cheap Chinese shit off eBay for $20 that probably doesn't work right to begin with? And I've never had an issue working on a VW with my device. The K-line on a VW is for diagnostics with the stereo. It should not interfere with your OBD-II reader.
. So I am not sure how your post makes any sense in that regard.
That's because you don't know very much about how OBD-II is actually used in practice. That probably explains why you keep calling it ODB-II. It's not a member of the Wu-Tang clan.
Yes you're right - a simple typo means that I must not know anything about
You do understand that the law which requires ODB-II ports on cars is precisely to protect consumers? You realize that there are specific malfunctions that have specific error codes that all manufacturers must use? Those codes are available. The protocol is open. You can download open source ODB-II diagnostic software for Linux. So I am not sure how your post makes any sense in that regard. Manufacturers are able to use custom codes, and even encrypt those codes. But they have to be for malfunctions that are beyond the scope of the codes that are required by law.
And in any event, these dealership laws were enacted (in many states) 50+ years ago. See originally independent dealers took on a lot of risk in buying and selling cars. The manufacturers, once they had built up enough money, wanted to open competing dealerships and charge the independents extra to sell the car. The end result would have been disastrous for the independent dealers that helped support the manufacturers in their infancy. Since Tesla does not have any independent dealerships, this can appear pretty silly. But this law prevented Toyota from switching everything over to Scion and then creating manufacturer based dealerships that they could then use to tank the independent dealers. I'm not sure how I feel about this protectionism. It would be nice for Tesla to sell cars however works best for them. However, is it fair to let Tesla do this and not let Toyota spin up a new brand and sell that exclusively? Or do we make the manufacturers buy out all the dealerships? What if a dealer doesn't want to sell? And will that help or hurt consumers?
No a lawyer, but I thought "probable cause" was that the original CAUSE for the police stop and search has to be legit. If you can't arrest the driver for "forcing someone off the road" then anything found after that wasn't supported by the search.
Or maybe I'm living in a fantasy world. I'm just not too enthused to live in a country where the "right to imprison" supersedes the right to liberty. Pot shouldn't be against the law -- but it is, because of stupidity and it means we have to buy a lot of anti depressants to compensate.
But really, society isn't breaking down because we don't have enough people in prison. A person should be a real menace to society in order to justify the government taking away their liberty. Prison is a sick, sad place. And I don't want to make this an easy process for the state.
The 4th amendment, as well as case law, expressly prohibits the police doing certain things during a Terry stop. They can only detain you briefly, but they only require reasonable suspicion that you committed a crime. The call from the citizen counts as reasonable suspicion. It was the smell of pot that gave the officer probable cause to search. I'm not a huge fan of the outcome - strictly because the tipster could have been a government agent acting on evidence that was obtained in violation of the 4th amendment. But I do think that the police should be able to Terry stop someone after receiving a complaint of illegal or dangerous activity.
On 1, how honest is the "it will interfere with emergency services" reason? I've heard police in particular have unofficially switched to cell phones for sensitive information. And I'd imagine that there are always people willing to sell the government new and improved technology to "protect" against nefarious "terrorists" who might theoretically stage an attack and then mess with ambulances (and the lobbyists would of course assure everyone that this was 800% likely to happen.) I'm just wondering if that's actually a nonsense argument the FCC uses to hold onto every bit of power they have. But I know nothing about it, which is why I'm asking.
It depends on what frequency you are transmitting on. If you're on the same frequency, you may be interfering. I think a lot of larger cities are using the same type of radio technology - radios that support frequency hopping. They hop channels so fast that they are very difficult to jam without blanketing a huge swath of the available spectrum. More than likely any switch to cell phones would be to prevent the "sensitive" conversation from being recorded by their government agency. You wouldn't want to talk about your big drug deal, even in code, over the department radio channel if you can just call a cell phone.
This isn't collected universally. If you want an example of that, I've not paid and I've had an account for well over a year.
Seems it's mostly restricted to iPhone users, as they'd be far more likely to pay.
Actually the app costs $1 for iPhone and is free after that. I got it for free for iPHone and when I later switched to Android, I never had to pay - despite the app clearly stating that it was $1 after the first year. I've been using it for years. I mostly use it to message people who are not in the US, or who work in areas that do not have great cell phone service.
I suppose someone has to mention obvious things, so you have this article. I had an iPad 2 and it was great and lasted me several iterations. I only just got a new one for Christmas this year. So... yes. People who have one already aren't going to run out and just get a new one because it's new. And there are some decent Android ones out there for people who don't want an iPad. Same with the iPod, everything can play music now. My iPad and phone included, so sure. The idea of an iPod that ONLY plays music is sort of a dated concept. My wife loves her nano and small iPods for the gym, which makes sense for working out and instances where you only need music. But in general, things like browsing the web or running apps is basically expected now, regardless of the ecosystem or OS. Now, I don't want to _have_ to buy a phone to play music, but when I can store it all on a device that I'm already carrying around, why would I bother with an extra device like an iPod (or any music player).
I have (admittedly old) iPod touch in addition to my phone. I used to travel a lot for work and found that I disliked having a dead phone when I got off a long flight. Granted that's a pretty niche market. We use iPod touches for dev/testing at work, and I write software for some hardware that won't work with anything except an iPod touch (credit card case like they use at the apple store). Again, those are all pretty niche areas.
This building is only 530m high. Even at a 30mph you could do that in about 20 seconds and thats assuming you're going all the way from the bottom to the top. For that distance this lift would save around a whole 5-6 seconds (not counting acceleration time). BFD.
Sounds like an expensive technology showcase rather than something that will be a major extra benefit.
The point of this elevator isn't to save you or I a couple of seconds on our trip. It's undoubtedly the increase the throughput on the elevator itself so that it can service more users in a day. This will allow them to save space on an extra bank of elevator shafts. At least, that is what I would expect. That is a real concern. Elevators just waste space - they don't make any money for the property owner. But your property is worthless without adequate lifts.
Strange, I have a Buffalo WZR-D1800H (a current model) and the wifi is excellent. Far better than my old Asus N16 and the crap that my ISP gave me (Virgin Superhub 2). 5GHz in particular is damn fast, which is the main reason I got it was 2.4GHz has become unusable around here.
Maybe you had a duff one? The only time I used an Airport Extreme was when I was at a friends house and it was crap, but that could have been for any number of reasons unrelated to the Airport itself.
Could be the model? I have three WZR-HP-G300NH2's and all I use them for is firewall/router. They're relatively inexpensive (I believe I paid $70 a piece for them), but they were unreliable. The WiFi would stop working (though the SSID would still broadcast, no traffic would go anywhere). The older they got, the worse the problem seemed to be. I still use them to handle firewall, but that's it.
The milstd seems to be designed so the tablet will survive the sort of things that happen in combat that are recoverable for the user (if you come under fire, diving to the ground is likely to break any civilian tablet when you land on it), but not survive the sort of thing where the user has no real chance to recover the tablet....
Meh. That's what WP is for. Put in that lock code incorrectly 10 times? Screw wiping the encryption key from the device. Just ignite some WP and watch that flash cook. Burn baby, burn!
My issue in this case is assume he didn't have weed in his car, what exactly were they going to do to him? They track him down, pull him over and then what do they do? They have an anonymous call saying he forced someone off the road, but no evidence of it. They have no video, no witnesses, not even a real person willing to say they were run off the road. So they pull him over and ask him if he ran someone off the road? And when he obviously says no they just let him go? There was nothing they could do to him unless there is some other secondary issue like in this case.
I can see now a lot of anonymous tips coming in from pay phones near where cops are hanging out. They suspect someone has drugs in their car, they just make an anonymous tip about the car doing something bad and then they have a reason to pull them over.
I would expect the officer to pull him over, make sure he's licensed and insured, and then explain that there was a complaint that he was driving recklessly. Just as I would expect the police to come and knock on my neighbor's door for if someone called and claimed they heard someone being beaten inside. They don't have to issue a citation, or search the person's property. Just the act of stopping the person can dissuade them from continuing their behavior. The moral of the story is to not drive like a total jackass when you have 30 pounds of marijuana in your car.
I'm perfectly fine with the police acting on tips from citizens. Where this becomes a problem is when the "anonymous tipster" is actually a government agent. If you allow this sort of tip to be used, it can definitely be abused by the government.
Sorry man, trust is gone. You can't regain your virginity.
I'm a born again virgin, you insensitive clod!
Just get a Buffalo. Good OpenWRT/DD-WRT support (some come pre-installed with DD-WRT), good price, good hardware. Linksys have been shit since the late 90s when I first encountered them, and the WRT54G was never that great to begin with (how many hardware revisions were there?)
The current Buffalo routers have TERRIBLE WiFi. I mean absolute garbage. I bought a Buffalo router and am using it as my firewall and LAN router. I bought an Airport Extreme to actually provide WiFi service to my home. With the Buffalo I had to reboot the device every 4-6 hours minimum just to use the WiFi. I could not copy a 5GB file over WiFi as that was guaranteed to screw the router up and WiFi would stop working all together. The Airport is expensive as hell but I haven't had to touch the thing in 3 years. I would use that as my only device if only it let me configure things like dynamic DNS support, etc.
Disclosure: I've never been to NYC, and I don't know how these horses are treated. If they're generally treated poorly, then disregard my comments. That said, it makes me wonder if the animal rights activists have ever met working horses. Working animals are bred for their jobs and they tend to enjoy them. My brother owned a draft horse and there was nothing he liked better than pulling. If pulling teams are animal cruelty, then so is playing fetch with your retriever.
I rescued a hunting dog (she's actually mixed breed, but 50/50 mix). She lives for the thrill of the chase. She is miserable if she sees a squirrel or a raccoon and she doesn't get to chase it. She is miserable if she doesn't get to track scents. It really is what she loves to do. As you say, these horses will be just as miserable if they don't have work to do. They'll get bored and find ways to cause trouble./P.
I watched a few promotional videos for the Vipukirven on YouTube. People lined up at trade shows to try out this new axe, and the promo guys were kept busy heaping the resulting split firewood onto a huge pile. It occurred to me that touring a "new axe" around to trade shows and getting passers-by to split enormous piles of wood for you for free is a great business model for a firewood vendor ...
Of course, if you can sell the occasional axe (for US$200+), so much the better!
Probably cheaper to hire a couple of migrant workers than it is to pay the cost of attending a tradeshow.
It's about time that power companies realize that their most important goal is not in providing customers with a quality source of electricity, but in making investors as much money as possible.
I will only state that if you would like your utility to switch to greener electricity generation techniques, then you'd better hope that they get investors to help subsidize that cost. Otherwise they will have to increase rates drastically so that they can build up enough capital that they can afford the cost. It's not any different than a government agency taking out a bond to build a power plant. I'd rather they have a steady stream of money to maintain and build new facilities than wait for the system to get into disrepair and then jack up the price. They can't satisfy investors if they don't provide quality electricity. They can't provide consistent and quality electricity without capital. I'm not saying that this particular proposal makes sense, but you do not want your utility going bankrupt. Not even if you think you're completely off the grid.
Stop! You there, with the rifle, in the foxhole. You are under arrest! You need to report to the Courthouse so I can find out if I'm allowed to shoot you!
Like I said, you aren't specifically targeting that soldier in the foxhole. He just happens to be in your way. They sought this guy out and blew him up using a drone strike. There was no firefight. And do you really think the drone strikes help our cause? I would expect it to just polarize the people against us that much more.
Well, in one case specifically the US was targeting a US Citizen who was overseas and supposedly involved in terror campaigns. He had no trial, even in absentia, which convicted him of the crime. The administration just decided it was okay to find him, launch a Hellfire missile at the vehicle he was in, and end the problem for good. It's entirely different if you find out ex post facto that one of the participants was a US citizen.
As an additional benefit, I've always found making notes in a notebook to be less intrusive in meetings or interviews than typing or using a stylus on a tablet (although changing social norms may make the latter less intrusive eventually), and the act of writing to be less intrusive to my own thought processes than typing (maybe just because no red squiggly lines appear under my notes as I type, or text reflowing, drawing the eye as it does so), but that might just be me, or I might just be showing my age.
I always use the computer for taking notes in meetings. I can type at over 200WPM and my handwriting is painfully slow in comparison. I used to do transcription work to pay the bills through my days at the university. I could quite literally record every word of a meeting if I wanted to. I find that its easier to follow the meeting if I make a quick electronic note and then return my attention to the person talking. It's important to have the right keyboard for this. Many people like their MX keyboards with mechanical switches, but they are very loud and very rude during meetings. It is considerate to avoid making loud keyboard noises.
There are about 300 000 000 boobs in the USA, and only about 40 000 women die of breast cancer each year. Divide 40 000 by 300 000 000 and you have a proof (in your mindset) that there is no link between boobs and breast cancer.
Well you have to remember that boobs are part of an organism. Breast cancer can only be caused by living cells. So again it sounds like its a problem with organisms and not a problem that exists due to inanimate objects. It's much easier to get people to volunteer to raise money for breast cancer research than it is to get people to address social/economic issues, however.
I've got this giant pipe wrench that's been taking a beating (well... giving one) for decades. I can't tell you how many passwords and pin codes I've cracked with that thing. Best hacking tool I ever bought.
At the time there were limited arms (you took about 2 minutes to reload) vs able to empty a couple clips in that same amount of time, now.
First of all, the red coats could fire their weapon at a rate of about 3-4 rounds per minute. Second of all, it's not difficult to empty a clip at all. A stripper clip is designed to empty very quickly. The real rate of fire is how quickly you can empty a magazine. That is the rate of fire for a weapon, and not a tool used to reload the magazine itself (a clip). And anyway, it was perfectly legal to own swords and other weapons back then. I'm not saying that we should allow people to own anything they want. I am just saying you don't have a very good understanding of these weapons.
A few years ago we had some Chinese exchange workers come and work for us. At the end of their stint, they did a bit of a presentation about similar work in China. They did a bit of background on China, and were still calling Taiwan part of China! I was a bit flabbergasted...
Different perspectives or propaganda I guess. Eye opener either way.
Did you know that Taiwan also calls itself China? There is the PRC (the mainland side) and ROC (Taiwan side). The first is the Peoples Republic of China, and the second is the Republic of China. They both consider the other to be part of their territory and are waiting for the other side to give in to their leadership.