I particularly like the "debunking" of the natural disasters, which amounts to "It can't be related to the supermoon since both tsunamis were when the moon was at apogee". Okay, then is it possible that something bad happens geologically when there is an apogee-syzygy?
True; I downloaded a couple of tracks for free expecting that I'd probably like them and probably buy them anyway. I *did* like them, so I bought the flac versions which I can compress to Ogg (or indeed just leave alone) for playing at home, or compress to MP3 and burn onto a disc to listen to in the van.
I tried it, I thought it was worth buying, so I bought the full package. Dead simple. I'm going to be buying some 192kHz flac albums from Linn Records in the next couple of days because I listened to the free (low bitrate) download and liked it.
CDs have a lower noise floor and less distortion than vinyl. They also sound much, much better, since they have a far wider frequency range and are maximally flat up to around 16-17kHz (they roll off well below the Nyquist frequency because otherwise the filter slope would be ridiculously steep and ringy - but that's still far higher than vinyl goes).
Unless you're using quarter-inch tape, you're just playing.
Right, but then you've only got CD quality. If you listen to your music on scratchy little iPod headphones or in the car, this is just about adequate.
You can buy 192kHz FLACs from Linn Records for about the same price as a CD - a little more expensive, but then "good" recordings (ie. not just chart shite) tends to end up around the £20 mark anyway.
The fact that such a device would run arbitrary code from a music file,
It can't. There is *no possible way* that you can send a malicious audio track to mess about with the car's electronics. The article is totally on crack.
What you can do on most cars with multiplexed (CANBus) electronics is put new firmware onto various systems from a CD. Rather than recall a batch of cars to do an update, you can just pop a CD in the post. It speeds things up at the workshop, too - when my van needed an update the guy from Mercedes was able to come out to me, but I dropped by the garage since I was working nearby. Pop in a disk, turn the ignition on with the right combination of buttons held down on the stereo, and it updates the various ECUs.
My own car (1988 CitroÃn CX) has absolutely no electronics at all, except the clock on the dashboard - and that doesn't work anyway.
I knew I'd been hacking on screen update routines for lysdr too much when I was watching NCIS rather than CSI and they did the "flash up millions of fingerprints" thing - and my first thought was "jeez, all those blits to the screen, that could be so much faster..."
Tens of thousands injured and maimed, though. The US Republicans saw the word "Republican" and the word "Irish" and flung in as much money as they could. Long and short of it is, they all supported terrorism, so they're all terrorists.
In some US cities it is harder to get a license to carry a gun outside the home then in the UK
In the UK it's easier to get a gun licence than a driving licence. Oh, and under certain circumstances (mostly weirdass crazy farming laws) then *not* owning a shotgun is illegal. Go figure.
ATTENTION SLASHDOT JANITORS - fix the <i> tags. Sometimes people need to use italics, and putting it in <strong> or <em>phasis tags is stupid.
No, it's got less to do with the computing speed (you could use one of the pin-for-pin-compatible ARM boards) and more to do with the Gameduino not having an actual framebuffer.
(note: there is currently no one pointing a gun at me, nor a cop looking at me, nor a camera recording me)
Same here. There might be a camera recording me today if I go to the bank, or maybe one of the more security-conscious locations I work at. Much the same as you.
I bet you get filmed on more CCTV cameras than me today, though.
That was a figure made up by one of the rabid red-top tabloids - possibly the Daily Mail, I can't quite remember - where they sent one of their "journalists" out to count up all the cameras they could see in about a quarter mile of the main street of a particularly unsavoury part of London, and multiplied by the total length of the road network in the UK. By that metric, the farm track to my house would have three cameras on it - and every road no matter how small would have a camera about every fifty feet.
I live just outside a major city. I doubt if there's a CCTV camera within ten miles of here.
In the US, you have just as many CCTV cameras in your cities as London does. Your surveillance state keeps you in the sights of some twitchy cop's gun all the time, though. So I guess you have it worse.
I can't imagine a greater infringement of civil liberties than living like the Americans, with a gun pointed at them every second of their lives.
The Le Mans 24-hour is far, far cooler than F1. Even the stuff earlier in the day like they hybrid and electric racing cars - last year I watched one of the hybrid Audis coast silently down the straight to Mulsanne, then launch like a bomb going off as the engine kicked back in and all the drive motors powered up - gone. Amazing.
In the actual race, the diesel Audis took the podium, and the Peugeot diesels made a decent show too. Bear in mind that these racing cars are running on the same diesel you put into your rattly old 406HDi - the engine is basically the same technology made into a V12.
F1 used to be about car manufacturers showing the best they could do. Now the "best" isn't the "fastest" - it's the cleverest, lightest design. Having them stick to one engine for the season has forced them to look at other design challenges. I can't wait to see what hybrids bring to F1 - give the car a smaller engine (and slower on the straights) but with brutal acceleration in the corners, and put the skill back into racing.
... ban football everywhere else? On the radio, too, that would be great. Thanks.
Just about every news programme and half of everything else has had some reference to two football managers having a squabble over what is essentially a children's game with a bit of a subtext of religious war. It would be great if we could get them all to shut up about it.
Yes, "gas" gas, not "gasoline" gas. Over here we call it petrol, and only lawnmowers, motorbikes and incredibly old cars run on it. Everything else uses diesel.
... except they didn't. As a previous poster said, there is a link *right there on the Metropolitan Police website* that clarifies that it is entirely legal to photograph or film the police.
Actually the whole "two billion cameras per UK citizen" thing was made up by a far-right tabloid newspaper. One of their "journalists" counted the number of CCTV cameras in about a quarter mile stretch of the main street of a rather unsavoury part of London - including all the privately-run ones outside betting shops, off-licences and "hotels" that offer rooms by the hour - and multiplied by the total distance of roads in the UK. For the figure to be anything like accurate you'd have to have a CCTV camera every fifty feet or so on every single road right down to farm tracks.
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I particularly like the "debunking" of the natural disasters, which amounts to "It can't be related to the supermoon since both tsunamis were when the moon was at apogee". Okay, then is it possible that something bad happens geologically when there is an apogee-syzygy?
I live in north-west Scotland. You guys call it "Hurricane Season" and evacuate, we call it "January" and avoid putting washing on the line.
Stockpile water and gasoline
Petrol goes stale. Don't stockpile it. Ditch the wheezy underpowered unreliable petrol engines, and get a diesel car and a diesel genny.
I don't know, look at Florida. I can't think of anything more utterly depressing than that relentless heat and glare.
True; I downloaded a couple of tracks for free expecting that I'd probably like them and probably buy them anyway. I *did* like them, so I bought the flac versions which I can compress to Ogg (or indeed just leave alone) for playing at home, or compress to MP3 and burn onto a disc to listen to in the van.
I tried it, I thought it was worth buying, so I bought the full package. Dead simple. I'm going to be buying some 192kHz flac albums from Linn Records in the next couple of days because I listened to the free (low bitrate) download and liked it.
CDs have a lower noise floor and less distortion than vinyl. They also sound much, much better, since they have a far wider frequency range and are maximally flat up to around 16-17kHz (they roll off well below the Nyquist frequency because otherwise the filter slope would be ridiculously steep and ringy - but that's still far higher than vinyl goes).
Unless you're using quarter-inch tape, you're just playing.
Right, but then you've only got CD quality. If you listen to your music on scratchy little iPod headphones or in the car, this is just about adequate.
You can buy 192kHz FLACs from Linn Records for about the same price as a CD - a little more expensive, but then "good" recordings (ie. not just chart shite) tends to end up around the £20 mark anyway.
The fact that such a device would run arbitrary code from a music file,
It can't. There is *no possible way* that you can send a malicious audio track to mess about with the car's electronics. The article is totally on crack.
What you can do on most cars with multiplexed (CANBus) electronics is put new firmware onto various systems from a CD. Rather than recall a batch of cars to do an update, you can just pop a CD in the post. It speeds things up at the workshop, too - when my van needed an update the guy from Mercedes was able to come out to me, but I dropped by the garage since I was working nearby. Pop in a disk, turn the ignition on with the right combination of buttons held down on the stereo, and it updates the various ECUs.
My own car (1988 CitroÃn CX) has absolutely no electronics at all, except the clock on the dashboard - and that doesn't work anyway.
I knew I'd been hacking on screen update routines for lysdr too much when I was watching NCIS rather than CSI and they did the "flash up millions of fingerprints" thing - and my first thought was "jeez, all those blits to the screen, that could be so much faster..."
Tens of thousands injured and maimed, though. The US Republicans saw the word "Republican" and the word "Irish" and flung in as much money as they could. Long and short of it is, they all supported terrorism, so they're all terrorists.
In some US cities it is harder to get a license to carry a gun outside the home then in the UK
In the UK it's easier to get a gun licence than a driving licence. Oh, and under certain circumstances (mostly weirdass crazy farming laws) then *not* owning a shotgun is illegal. Go figure.
ATTENTION SLASHDOT JANITORS - fix the <i> tags. Sometimes people need to use italics, and putting it in <strong> or <em>phasis tags is stupid.
Phone networks - both landline and mobile - use GPS. Without GPS, there's no way to precisely sync up timeslots in TDMA backhaul.
No, it's got less to do with the computing speed (you could use one of the pin-for-pin-compatible ARM boards) and more to do with the Gameduino not having an actual framebuffer.
I've always felt upload and download speeds should be the same, like they were in the days of modem access.
Have you used a modem faster than about, oooh, 9600bps? Anything faster was asymmetric.
(note: there is currently no one pointing a gun at me, nor a cop looking at me, nor a camera recording me)
Same here. There might be a camera recording me today if I go to the bank, or maybe one of the more security-conscious locations I work at. Much the same as you.
I bet you get filmed on more CCTV cameras than me today, though.
The UK has 1 camera for every 14 citizens
That was a figure made up by one of the rabid red-top tabloids - possibly the Daily Mail, I can't quite remember - where they sent one of their "journalists" out to count up all the cameras they could see in about a quarter mile of the main street of a particularly unsavoury part of London, and multiplied by the total length of the road network in the UK. By that metric, the farm track to my house would have three cameras on it - and every road no matter how small would have a camera about every fifty feet.
I live just outside a major city. I doubt if there's a CCTV camera within ten miles of here.
In the US, you have just as many CCTV cameras in your cities as London does. Your surveillance state keeps you in the sights of some twitchy cop's gun all the time, though. So I guess you have it worse.
I can't imagine a greater infringement of civil liberties than living like the Americans, with a gun pointed at them every second of their lives.
The Le Mans 24-hour is far, far cooler than F1. Even the stuff earlier in the day like they hybrid and electric racing cars - last year I watched one of the hybrid Audis coast silently down the straight to Mulsanne, then launch like a bomb going off as the engine kicked back in and all the drive motors powered up - gone. Amazing.
In the actual race, the diesel Audis took the podium, and the Peugeot diesels made a decent show too. Bear in mind that these racing cars are running on the same diesel you put into your rattly old 406HDi - the engine is basically the same technology made into a V12.
F1 used to be about car manufacturers showing the best they could do. Now the "best" isn't the "fastest" - it's the cleverest, lightest design. Having them stick to one engine for the season has forced them to look at other design challenges. I can't wait to see what hybrids bring to F1 - give the car a smaller engine (and slower on the straights) but with brutal acceleration in the corners, and put the skill back into racing.
Exactly, without narrow-minded right-wing whiners Socialism would work just great.
... ban football everywhere else? On the radio, too, that would be great. Thanks.
Just about every news programme and half of everything else has had some reference to two football managers having a squabble over what is essentially a children's game with a bit of a subtext of religious war. It would be great if we could get them all to shut up about it.
Yeah, exactly. You can imagine the SCADA readout from the reactor "OVER TEMP" "HIGH VIBRATION" "Oh it's okay, it's stopped"
Yes, "gas" gas, not "gasoline" gas. Over here we call it petrol, and only lawnmowers, motorbikes and incredibly old cars run on it. Everything else uses diesel.
... except they didn't. As a previous poster said, there is a link *right there on the Metropolitan Police website* that clarifies that it is entirely legal to photograph or film the police.
Actually the whole "two billion cameras per UK citizen" thing was made up by a far-right tabloid newspaper. One of their "journalists" counted the number of CCTV cameras in about a quarter mile stretch of the main street of a rather unsavoury part of London - including all the privately-run ones outside betting shops, off-licences and "hotels" that offer rooms by the hour - and multiplied by the total distance of roads in the UK. For the figure to be anything like accurate you'd have to have a CCTV camera every fifty feet or so on every single road right down to farm tracks.
Nonsense. It's illegal - as in, "operator goes to jail" illegal - to point CCTV cameras in people's windows.
Troll harder.