OK.. well after posting my comment I read the TFA again and saw that the headline of the TFA says gas pump and the body of the TFA says gas pump monitoring system. So there is confusion all over the place in TFA.
But when you dig down into the report that TFA refers to, you find that the heading of that is Is Anonymous Attacking Internet Exposed Gas Pump Monitoring Systems in the US?
So even though my comment was a bit sloppy, the context of the story was changed between the original report and TFA.
TFA says that a Gas Pump Monitoring device was hacked, and the pic in TFA shows a screen capture from an inventory system. No mention is made of a Gas Pump being hacked. Thus the headline of TFS stating that a gas pump was hacked is pure click bait.
A cop shooting himself is negligence. They have the training and equipment to avoid such incidents in all cases. That it happens means it was preventable, thus negligence, not "accidental".
I agree that the root cause of the injury was negligence, but the shot was not intentional - hence I still see it as accidental.
In comparison, the cop could have taken his weapon out and aimed at his foot and then fired. The root cause of his injury would still be negligence, but the action would be intentional and not accidental.
You can make a tesla coil out of an old CRT TV- the older the better. Once your grandmother dies, rip her TV apart and pull out the flyback transformer.
1. Both my Grandmothers have been dead for 20 years you insensitive clod!
2. I have owned CRT TVs myself.
Now get off my lawn, or I'll throw an LP at you, Frisbee style.
"The Uber experience is expensive because it's not just the car but the other dude in the car," Kalanick said at a technology conference in 2014, referring to the expense of paying human drivers. "When there's no other dude in the car, the cost [of taking an Uber] gets cheaper than owning a vehicle."
I thought that when you signed up to be an Uber driver you had to have access to a less than 5 year old car. In other words you were footing the bill for the capital required to provide the service, as well as on-going maintenance etc.
If Uber ditches the drivers, then who is going to be paying for the cars that Uber uses?
Or If, in the future, you need to own a self driving car in order to sign up with Uber, won't Uber have lost all pretense that it is a ride sharing company?
Yeah man, I own a 2022 Ford Chauffeur and it pays for itself. I just let it drive around all day by itself and collect fares for me!
Uh, yeah, that would probably make the US air force jealous if you're going to make it a round trip without refueling.
The Global Hawk has a range of 8700 miles, and NK is only 5600 miles from CA. Being able to do this as a round-trip, no refueling, with a budget of a lot less than $10k[1], and before the end of 2015 is going to take some major amounts of magical unicorn shit, so I don't think that the USAF is going to be jealous anytime soon.
My take is that this is pretty much a scam wrapped in an appeal to magical thinking.
[1] KS project is for $10K. From that they need to build, package and ship the Tesla Coils. And I just saw that you don't actually get a Tesla Coil unless you pony up at least $55.
There have been stories before about kickstarter projects going off into the weeds because they were oversubscribed by so much that the projects didn't know how to handle all the extra $$$.
Is this a similar case? (EG going from dual to quad core because now they have the $$ to do it)
Or is it just a bad project design? (EG going from dual to quad core because their original design was shit and they couldn't make their original promises with a dual core system)
I had a car that at about 18,000 miles, had its "check engine" light come on. I ignored it as I knew from past experience, that this car had no major problems. This light remained on till 29,000 miles when the car started shaking while at about 80 mph.
Any speed lower than that would be without problems.
On the other hand, I once had a car that where the check engine light came on every now and again for no apparent reason at all. I took it in to be repaired and it turned out to be a trivial sensor that needed replacing.
Then later on, every now and again the engine would "splutter" and the check engine would come on, but would stay off the next time the car was started. As the "spluttering" seemed trivial (and that the light always went out again) I was thinking that the problem was also trivial. After some time of this behavior I finally decided to schedule my car so that this problem could be finally diagnosed. Then 2 days before the appointment, when I was in the middle of major intersection in a city, the engine gave one big "splutter" and then died on the spot. It turned out that this time the sensor that was dying was the camshaft position sensor, and when it finally died it ended up destroying the top end of the engine. So instead of my $200 or $300 repair bill for a new sensor, I now had a foot the bill for a top end rebuild - as well as a new camshaft position sensor
Will they have the standard character stereotypes of the lovable, but well intentioned bumbling male paired with the more introverted, but take control female that seems to have permeated every other TV show?
This one didn't look exactly like the other one, it had 2 pipes strapped to it with wires sticking out of it.
but hey, let's stick to the fear answer. it's working great so far.
Bzzz.. Wrong. The camera did not have 2 pipes strapped to it, with wires sticking out. The camera was strapped to two metal conduits that were conveniently poking out of the bridge itself and were the remains of where something like a light pole had been removed. You can see all of this in the image in TFA.
But really? Pipes with wires coming out of them as being indicative of a bomb is as bad a hollywood device as Adam West running around with a black object with "Bomb" painted on the side.
"...the device, in addition to having a 12-ounce can wrapped in duct tape, also included two ¾-inch steel pipes with four electrical wires protruding from the top."
From looking at the picture in TFA, it looks like the pinhole camera was duct-taped to the remains of a light pole on the bridge. You can make out an old baseplate, and the 3/4 inch steel pipes are just the conduit cemented into the bridge itself in order to protect the wires - that were cut off and left when the light was removed.
You can see this sort of shit anywhere there is decaying infrastructure, as it takes more money to properly clean up after something is removed.
The revised edition now has a section on how to cause mass panic and bring an entire city to a standstill. It reads something like this:
Go to Walmart Buy a 12 pack of Coke and a role of duct tape Drink the coke Duct tape the empty cans to a series of public infrastructures (EG all the bridges surrounding a specific area) Call 911 and report seeing more than one suspicious objects.
Bonus marks
1) scrawl some arabic looking words to the outside of each installation
2) Fill the cans with talcum powder
This should be good for paralyzing a city for at least a complete day
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Second link, dammit
After seeing that first link I was left wondering what other colors can be applied to the text windows.
I thought the point of a major version (not necessarily in the Linux kernel, but software generally), was to signal a major change
Look at the choices in the poll itself:
1. I like big versions, and I cannot lie
2. v4.0 'cause I get confused easily
The poll is such a joke that for a moment I thought it was meant for April fools day.
OK .. well after posting my comment I read the TFA again and saw that the headline of the TFA says gas pump and the body of the TFA says gas pump monitoring system. So there is confusion all over the place in TFA.
But when you dig down into the report that TFA refers to, you find that the heading of that is Is Anonymous Attacking Internet Exposed Gas Pump Monitoring Systems in the US?
So even though my comment was a bit sloppy, the context of the story was changed between the original report and TFA.
TFA says that a Gas Pump Monitoring device was hacked, and the pic in TFA shows a screen capture from an inventory system. No mention is made of a Gas Pump being hacked. Thus the headline of TFS stating that a gas pump was hacked is pure click bait.
A cop shooting himself is negligence. They have the training and equipment to avoid such incidents in all cases. That it happens means it was preventable, thus negligence, not "accidental".
I agree that the root cause of the injury was negligence, but the shot was not intentional - hence I still see it as accidental.
In comparison, the cop could have taken his weapon out and aimed at his foot and then fired. The root cause of his injury would still be negligence, but the action would be intentional and not accidental.
See the thing is, as an SCA guy, if I carry the sword, I'm going to have to bring the shield to be really effective.
WTF? Do you see Ninja's carrying shields around with them?
I suggest you put down the roast turkey leg and the pint of ale and take a good hard look at how "effective" you SCA people are in the real-world!
no such thing as an accidental shooting.
Ah .. so this was a pre-meditated, self inflicted wound? Off-duty police officer accidentally shoots himself
You can make a tesla coil out of an old CRT TV- the older the better. Once your grandmother dies, rip her TV apart and pull out the flyback transformer.
1. Both my Grandmothers have been dead for 20 years you insensitive clod!
2. I have owned CRT TVs myself.
Now get off my lawn, or I'll throw an LP at you, Frisbee style.
"The Uber experience is expensive because it's not just the car but the other dude in the car," Kalanick said at a technology conference in 2014, referring to the expense of paying human drivers. "When there's no other dude in the car, the cost [of taking an Uber] gets cheaper than owning a vehicle."
I thought that when you signed up to be an Uber driver you had to have access to a less than 5 year old car. In other words you were footing the bill for the capital required to provide the service, as well as on-going maintenance etc.
If Uber ditches the drivers, then who is going to be paying for the cars that Uber uses?
Or If, in the future, you need to own a self driving car in order to sign up with Uber, won't Uber have lost all pretense that it is a ride sharing company?
Yeah man, I own a 2022 Ford Chauffeur and it pays for itself. I just let it drive around all day by itself and collect fares for me!
...Consumers and hobbyists signing on to a perpetual Microsoft tax.
Car analogy. If people don't like perpetual payments, why is car leasing such a big thing in the US?
Uh, yeah, that would probably make the US air force jealous if you're going to make it a round trip without refueling.
The Global Hawk has a range of 8700 miles, and NK is only 5600 miles from CA. Being able to do this as a round-trip, no refueling, with a budget of a lot less than $10k[1], and before the end of 2015 is going to take some major amounts of magical unicorn shit, so I don't think that the USAF is going to be jealous anytime soon.
My take is that this is pretty much a scam wrapped in an appeal to magical thinking.
[1] KS project is for $10K. From that they need to build, package and ship the Tesla Coils. And I just saw that you don't actually get a Tesla Coil unless you pony up at least $55.
I will admit that it was last year, but its still a dupe Octopus-Inspired Robot Matches Real Octopus For Speed
From 2013 Cops Are Creating Totally Bogus Facebook Profiles Just So They Can Arrest People where they also point out that this is against FB's TOS
Tangential to this in 2014 Justice Dept. will review practice of creating fake Facebook profiles (Which talks about Federal LE, most famously brought to light by the DEA creating the fake FB profile in the woman's name in order to nab suspects.
Feds pay $134,000 to settle DEA agent's fake Facebook case
There have been stories before about kickstarter projects going off into the weeds because they were oversubscribed by so much that the projects didn't know how to handle all the extra $$$.
Is this a similar case? (EG going from dual to quad core because now they have the $$ to do it)
Or is it just a bad project design? (EG going from dual to quad core because their original design was shit and they couldn't make their original promises with a dual core system)
I had a car that at about 18,000 miles, had its "check engine" light come on. I ignored it as I knew from past experience, that this car had no major problems. This light remained on till 29,000 miles when the car started shaking while at about 80 mph.
Any speed lower than that would be without problems.
On the other hand, I once had a car that where the check engine light came on every now and again for no apparent reason at all. I took it in to be repaired and it turned out to be a trivial sensor that needed replacing.
Then later on, every now and again the engine would "splutter" and the check engine would come on, but would stay off the next time the car was started. As the "spluttering" seemed trivial (and that the light always went out again) I was thinking that the problem was also trivial. After some time of this behavior I finally decided to schedule my car so that this problem could be finally diagnosed. Then 2 days before the appointment, when I was in the middle of major intersection in a city, the engine gave one big "splutter" and then died on the spot. It turned out that this time the sensor that was dying was the camshaft position sensor, and when it finally died it ended up destroying the top end of the engine. So instead of my $200 or $300 repair bill for a new sensor, I now had a foot the bill for a top end rebuild - as well as a new camshaft position sensor
Will they have the standard character stereotypes of the lovable, but well intentioned bumbling male paired with the more introverted, but take control female that seems to have permeated every other TV show?
even though some of us don't want to waste our bandwidth to load a video we're not going to watch in the first place.
Except you can't do that because even if you hit "Pause" the video eagerly downloads the content and stalks you, just waiting for you to hit "Play"
Fuck Off
Having them makes Bennet look desirable as a replacement. At least I can see from front page to avoid his rants.
Some include notes that identify the soda can as a "Georgia State Art Project." Some instruct passersby to "Please do not take down!"
Because only non-bombs have signs that say they are innocuous.
Get charged with filling false police reports.
Get sued for the costs incurred by those false reports.
What sort of terrorist are you if you don't have an exit strategy that avoids being identified by the authorities?
And if you are a terrorist, then false police reports and being sued are the least of your worries.
This one didn't look exactly like the other one, it had 2 pipes strapped to it with wires sticking out of it.
but hey, let's stick to the fear answer. it's working great so far.
Bzzz.. Wrong. The camera did not have 2 pipes strapped to it, with wires sticking out. The camera was strapped to two metal conduits that were conveniently poking out of the bridge itself and were the remains of where something like a light pole had been removed. You can see all of this in the image in TFA.
But really? Pipes with wires coming out of them as being indicative of a bomb is as bad a hollywood device as Adam West running around with a black object with "Bomb" painted on the side.
"...the device, in addition to having a 12-ounce can wrapped in duct tape, also included two ¾-inch steel pipes with four electrical wires protruding from the top."
From looking at the picture in TFA, it looks like the pinhole camera was duct-taped to the remains of a light pole on the bridge. You can make out an old baseplate, and the 3/4 inch steel pipes are just the conduit cemented into the bridge itself in order to protect the wires - that were cut off and left when the light was removed.
You can see this sort of shit anywhere there is decaying infrastructure, as it takes more money to properly clean up after something is removed.
The revised edition now has a section on how to cause mass panic and bring an entire city to a standstill. It reads something like this:
Go to Walmart
Buy a 12 pack of Coke and a role of duct tape
Drink the coke
Duct tape the empty cans to a series of public infrastructures (EG all the bridges surrounding a specific area)
Call 911 and report seeing more than one suspicious objects.
Bonus marks
1) scrawl some arabic looking words to the outside of each installation
2) Fill the cans with talcum powder
This should be good for paralyzing a city for at least a complete day
Tom "Dingo" Wheeler used to work for the cable companies.
I know the cable companies were bad, but why pick on a poor guy just because he wants to eat a baby every now and again?