Nothing critical on those planes uses internet in any shape or form. The closest you get to internet-anything is the TTE (Time Triggered Ethernet) -- that's what interconnects the avionics together, probably the FADECs too. About the only commonality with "internet" is that it uses the Ethernet for lower 2 or 1.5 OSI layers, depending on who you ask:)
I don't know where you live, but in civilized world breaking a court order is never a minor issue. It has zero to do with whether they are a monopolist or whatever. They agreed to a court ordered action, while having an option not to agree (!) (it was similar a bit to a plea deal), then broke that agreement. Now they got fined, and I think the reason is perfectly good. MS as a corporation can't blatantly defy the courts, it's as simple as that. The kind of money they paid as the fine is not legalized theft, it's the minimum needed for them to pay any attention. If it was around a million dollars, it'd be cheaper for them to do nothing and not obey the order. As far as I'm concerned, the court shouldn't have given them a fine -- as a judge, I'd have barred them from the market for 6 months. That'd get the message clearly across that you don't fuck with court orders.
I've repurposed the steering wheel cruise control and volume change buttons for it. The Volvos I have came with 9 buttons on the steering wheel. Four of them are volume up/down and cruise control fast/slow. I use those for controlling the up/down shifts.
I use two CAN interfaces and two serial interfaces, and do two man-in-the-middle "attacks". I broke the LOSPEED CAN bus between the radio and the "other stuff". I also broke a serial bus between the GSM (gear shift module) and the TCM.
There are two operation modes. In standby, all the messages are passed unchanged and my board behaves transparently - there are relays that physically close the busses around my device and I passively listen to traffic.
In the active mode, I store-and-forward the messages, filtering out the ones I do not want the TCM or radio to hear. The volume button messages are not passed to the radio. Volume and cruise speed buttons are intercepted to mean shift up/shift down. The standby/active mode switching is done by "flicking" the steering wheel volume control up/down three times. The mode indication is done by a plain old beeper on my board, I didn't have the patience to reverse engineer the chime messages that the audio system accepts.
I have done some guessing and fuzzing tests to figure out how the serial messages for upshift/downshift and triptronic mode look from a triptronic GSM (which I don't have on my car). On entering the active mode, the TCM is sent a "triptronic mode" message, on exiting the active mode, the TCM is sent an "auto/drive mode" message. The up/down CAN messages are translated to shift up/shift down messages on the GSM serial bus.
I figure a similar approach would work on any other modern car, with differences being in the kinds of busses you have to tap into. Probably the Germans are more sure of themselves and would put the shifter module (GSM) on a CAN bus. Volvo decided to use a dedicated serial bus for this, probably to make a bit more resilient.
What a fine reading comprehension fail. I don't care if they do personalized ads or not, that's not the only way to use email contents for profit! Heck, I've even given some examples of how you might use it for other reasons -- where it does give you potentially huge advantage in terms of reducing costs.
I don't know why people even believe in this shit. What, you are all seriously so naive as to think Microsoft is not doing the very same thing? That's the whole fucking reason they offer a mail service, for crying out loud! There is no money in it for them at all unless they extract information that can be monetized. If you want a usable enough service, there can't be nearly enough ads there to pay for it. Google and MS are doing the same, they just use a common tactic of pretending like they are very different. Large-scale free mail hosting is a financial loss unless you mine the data. The data doesn't even necessarily need to be sold to third parties, there are other groups within Google and Microsoft that use it. Just think of how big of a language corpus it gives both companies to develop their other tools on. Imagine you're a search engine or a translation service startup. You're at a big disadvantage to both MS and Google precisely because you don't have billions of sentences of text as your reference.
You haven't been paying attention to politics I see. The deal is only and precisely in how he frames his "facts". He is implying -- and his statements are specifically construed to do so to the uneducated masses -- that the respiratory CO2 output of a bike rider is somehow in the ballpark of a per-person amortized CO2 output of any ICE means of transport (whatever comes to Joe Sixpack's mind). This is of course sheer lunacy, but he is careful by not stating it outright -- he'd be rightfully called a fool. What he is doing is what politicians do: what's important is what he is not saying -- what the ignorants' minds will fill the voids with. It's a rather obvious means of manipulating the public -- on the surface there's no way to accuse him of anything much, really. That's where the problem is with politicians.
I think that maybe some people just find it too hard to believe that all the carbon in the plants actually comes from the air. This gives you an idea about how much the atmosphere weighs -- CO2 is merely 0.04% of our atmosphere! Heck, forget the plants that are alive now, just look at how much of this stuff was in the atmosphere long time ago. Every bit of carbon in coal deposits came from the atmosphere!!
My wife's Volvo SUV (XC90) can shift at will between any two gears, same as my S80, but not from the factory shifter thingie. A $30 worth of parts (protoboard, buttons, a microcontroller with a CAN perhipheral, etc.) does it, though. I'd think any modern car out there can be commandeered like that. The sequential shifting is just a shortcoming of the user interface, not the hardware I wouldn't think. Heck, your shifter doesn't even have to include the "triptronic" feature -- it's just a UI thing, not a limitation of the transmission, duh. I bet a DCT BMW will take a nice CAN or FlexRay message to go to any gear you desire, probably in 100ms too, unless the transmission is somehow designed so that it can only quickly shift between adjacent gears... The hardware and software to do that is always trivial, it just takes a bit of reverse engineering to figure out what messages to send. There are papers out there where some of the techniques adequate to figure out the messages are detailed. Noting Earth-shattering. Good old fuzzing.
All this crap is only a workaround to an internal combustion engine with its limited powerband. The workaround to that? A bigger engine. Then a slushbox doesn't matter. Problem solved. The whole manual-vs-automatic flamefest only matters if you're after getting the most performance out of a limited-size motor or limited gas tank. Racing comes to mind, mostly, because the gas tank size by itself doesn't seem to matter much. Demonstrably, the U.S. consumer market doesn't give a shit about that. And I agree with that sentiment. It's enough work as it is to work around other drivers. Working around shortcomings of the engine shouldn't be my job.
LOL. That about sums it up. I know a couple of very good surgeons and they don't make $400k together, I don't think. Both have academic positions in addition to their regular job of doing the surgeries etc.
There's this thing called focus. Helpful beast, it is.
Alas, just because you try, doesn't mean it's worthwhile. There's people trying to pull off the free energy scams all the time. You think that if they try harder, they'll eventually succeed? Sorry, it doesn't work that way. Trying hard is worthwhile in some cases, in others it just amounts to trying hard at being stupid.
The next time you get into a car, if your brain is messed up somehow, might you crash into a school bus? If you crashed hard enough into the school bus, I don't know if the kids in the school bus could survive.
Yeah, makes just about as much sense as the parent.
Don't worry, it's just the man a.k.a. Gaetano Morano spewing his FUD. Nothing to see, move along. Even the grammar mistakes match with that G.M. persona.
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Nothing critical on those planes uses internet in any shape or form. The closest you get to internet-anything is the TTE (Time Triggered Ethernet) -- that's what interconnects the avionics together, probably the FADECs too. About the only commonality with "internet" is that it uses the Ethernet for lower 2 or 1.5 OSI layers, depending on who you ask :)
I don't know where you live, but in civilized world breaking a court order is never a minor issue. It has zero to do with whether they are a monopolist or whatever. They agreed to a court ordered action, while having an option not to agree (!) (it was similar a bit to a plea deal), then broke that agreement. Now they got fined, and I think the reason is perfectly good. MS as a corporation can't blatantly defy the courts, it's as simple as that. The kind of money they paid as the fine is not legalized theft, it's the minimum needed for them to pay any attention. If it was around a million dollars, it'd be cheaper for them to do nothing and not obey the order. As far as I'm concerned, the court shouldn't have given them a fine -- as a judge, I'd have barred them from the market for 6 months. That'd get the message clearly across that you don't fuck with court orders.
Useless cargo cultism it is. Pointless. Really. MFM hard drives aren't coming back.
Those of us with broker accounts that allow short selling would in fact love such a decision :)
I've repurposed the steering wheel cruise control and volume change buttons for it. The Volvos I have came with 9 buttons on the steering wheel. Four of them are volume up/down and cruise control fast/slow. I use those for controlling the up/down shifts.
I use two CAN interfaces and two serial interfaces, and do two man-in-the-middle "attacks". I broke the LOSPEED CAN bus between the radio and the "other stuff". I also broke a serial bus between the GSM (gear shift module) and the TCM.
There are two operation modes. In standby, all the messages are passed unchanged and my board behaves transparently - there are relays that physically close the busses around my device and I passively listen to traffic.
In the active mode, I store-and-forward the messages, filtering out the ones I do not want the TCM or radio to hear. The volume button messages are not passed to the radio. Volume and cruise speed buttons are intercepted to mean shift up/shift down. The standby/active mode switching is done by "flicking" the steering wheel volume control up/down three times. The mode indication is done by a plain old beeper on my board, I didn't have the patience to reverse engineer the chime messages that the audio system accepts.
I have done some guessing and fuzzing tests to figure out how the serial messages for upshift/downshift and triptronic mode look from a triptronic GSM (which I don't have on my car). On entering the active mode, the TCM is sent a "triptronic mode" message, on exiting the active mode, the TCM is sent an "auto/drive mode" message. The up/down CAN messages are translated to shift up/shift down messages on the GSM serial bus.
I figure a similar approach would work on any other modern car, with differences being in the kinds of busses you have to tap into. Probably the Germans are more sure of themselves and would put the shifter module (GSM) on a CAN bus. Volvo decided to use a dedicated serial bus for this, probably to make a bit more resilient.
What a fine reading comprehension fail. I don't care if they do personalized ads or not, that's not the only way to use email contents for profit! Heck, I've even given some examples of how you might use it for other reasons -- where it does give you potentially huge advantage in terms of reducing costs.
I don't know why people even believe in this shit. What, you are all seriously so naive as to think Microsoft is not doing the very same thing? That's the whole fucking reason they offer a mail service, for crying out loud! There is no money in it for them at all unless they extract information that can be monetized. If you want a usable enough service, there can't be nearly enough ads there to pay for it. Google and MS are doing the same, they just use a common tactic of pretending like they are very different. Large-scale free mail hosting is a financial loss unless you mine the data. The data doesn't even necessarily need to be sold to third parties, there are other groups within Google and Microsoft that use it. Just think of how big of a language corpus it gives both companies to develop their other tools on. Imagine you're a search engine or a translation service startup. You're at a big disadvantage to both MS and Google precisely because you don't have billions of sentences of text as your reference.
Ha, one learns something new every day. Thanks!
OK, OK, it came from supernovas prior to that, don't be so smart, mmkay?
You haven't been paying attention to politics I see. The deal is only and precisely in how he frames his "facts". He is implying -- and his statements are specifically construed to do so to the uneducated masses -- that the respiratory CO2 output of a bike rider is somehow in the ballpark of a per-person amortized CO2 output of any ICE means of transport (whatever comes to Joe Sixpack's mind). This is of course sheer lunacy, but he is careful by not stating it outright -- he'd be rightfully called a fool. What he is doing is what politicians do: what's important is what he is not saying -- what the ignorants' minds will fill the voids with. It's a rather obvious means of manipulating the public -- on the surface there's no way to accuse him of anything much, really. That's where the problem is with politicians.
Is there an online random troll post generator somewhere? This sure looks like it.
I think that maybe some people just find it too hard to believe that all the carbon in the plants actually comes from the air. This gives you an idea about how much the atmosphere weighs -- CO2 is merely 0.04% of our atmosphere! Heck, forget the plants that are alive now, just look at how much of this stuff was in the atmosphere long time ago. Every bit of carbon in coal deposits came from the atmosphere!!
Next time you see a tree, I hope you realize that all the carbon in it came from the CO2 in the air. We need the name of your biology teacher, pronto.
My wife's Volvo SUV (XC90) can shift at will between any two gears, same as my S80, but not from the factory shifter thingie. A $30 worth of parts (protoboard, buttons, a microcontroller with a CAN perhipheral, etc.) does it, though. I'd think any modern car out there can be commandeered like that. The sequential shifting is just a shortcoming of the user interface, not the hardware I wouldn't think. Heck, your shifter doesn't even have to include the "triptronic" feature -- it's just a UI thing, not a limitation of the transmission, duh. I bet a DCT BMW will take a nice CAN or FlexRay message to go to any gear you desire, probably in 100ms too, unless the transmission is somehow designed so that it can only quickly shift between adjacent gears... The hardware and software to do that is always trivial, it just takes a bit of reverse engineering to figure out what messages to send. There are papers out there where some of the techniques adequate to figure out the messages are detailed. Noting Earth-shattering. Good old fuzzing.
All this crap is only a workaround to an internal combustion engine with its limited powerband. The workaround to that? A bigger engine. Then a slushbox doesn't matter. Problem solved. The whole manual-vs-automatic flamefest only matters if you're after getting the most performance out of a limited-size motor or limited gas tank. Racing comes to mind, mostly, because the gas tank size by itself doesn't seem to matter much. Demonstrably, the U.S. consumer market doesn't give a shit about that. And I agree with that sentiment. It's enough work as it is to work around other drivers. Working around shortcomings of the engine shouldn't be my job.
LOL. That about sums it up. I know a couple of very good surgeons and they don't make $400k together, I don't think. Both have academic positions in addition to their regular job of doing the surgeries etc.
Just because there is no literal gulag doesn't mean the same principles don't apply to people who think of themselves as of being free.
There's this thing called focus. Helpful beast, it is.
Alas, just because you try, doesn't mean it's worthwhile. There's people trying to pull off the free energy scams all the time. You think that if they try harder, they'll eventually succeed? Sorry, it doesn't work that way. Trying hard is worthwhile in some cases, in others it just amounts to trying hard at being stupid.
The next time you get into a car, if your brain is messed up somehow, might you crash into a school bus? If you crashed hard enough into the school bus, I don't know if the kids in the school bus could survive.
Yeah, makes just about as much sense as the parent.
Don't worry, it's just the man a.k.a. Gaetano Morano spewing his FUD. Nothing to see, move along. Even the grammar mistakes match with that G.M. persona.
It's probably due to considerations for the safety of ISS. If a Dragon were to crack and explosively depressurize, the ISS would be lost.
Gaetano Morano, is that you?
And a decoder box :) Remember, there's no NTSC OTA since a couple of years.
Heck, it could probably ram them with sustaining minimal damage itself.
The more I think about it, the more I like it. Perhaps you should start a petition on 'we the people'. Seriously. You never know, it just may happen.