I like their Dynabook line. It's not quite as indestructible as the Toughbook range, but it is rugged. I have an old Core 2 era one which claims it will withstand 100kg on the lid (i.e. being sat on). It looks more or less like a normal laptop.
If it sells really depends on how quickly lawmakers can come up with a workable system to allow small aircraft to zip around cities in a reasonably safe manner.
Yeah, several terabytes over years. He isn't producing massive volumes of data (one or two HDDs' worth) and over a long period of time.
Having said that, for video YouTube isn't bad. Free, unlimited, reasonable quality, videos can be private. Download is a bit of an issue but I'd use it as secondary storage of the video wasn't sensitive.
Well, technically true but it's actually illegal to walk along the motorway here and if you did and got hit there would be no question of it being your fault.
I'd rather the car was designed so that it drove slowly when there were parked cars where pedestrians might leap out without warning, and have a front end designed to avoid killing them if it does collide.
EU standards actually require the front of the car to be designed to make pedestrian accidents survivable. Many cities have 20 MPH limits in residential areas.
Do you have links to any of these lawsuits? I'm genuinely interested in the legal arguments used.
Once again, RMS is proven right. Unless you have the source code to the firmware and the ability to load your own versions, you don't own that thing and the real owner will eventually screw you.
Reminds me of that guy who got a partial refund from Amazon when Sony removed the Other OS (Linux) feature from his PS3.
In the UK you would be entitled a refund proportional to the loss of functionality and the time that the device had been functional for vs. its expected lifetime. Something like this you could reasonable expect at least a decade out of, so say you had it for two years and the lost functionality made it useless to you, that would be an 80% refund. From the seller, not the manufacturer.
Hopefully shops will stop selling stuff from companies that do this, because they are the ones who have to issue the refunds.
You would be surprised how many good cells get thrown away. Often one cell in a pack dies and the whole pack is discarded, despite the rest of the cells having plenty of life left in them.
Written off cars are another source of well maintained, barely used cells - a Nissan Leaf 24kWh pack will easily do 200k miles with 20% capacity loss even with constant rapid charging and 100% top-offs, so one with 40k miles that gets written off is going to have a lot of cells with a lot of life left in them.
Laptop batteries are made up for several individual cells. Often only one or two cells die, and the rest are fine. Take the pack apart, test each cell and discard the duff ones.
This happens because cheap cells have variable quality, and because heat kills batteries but tends to be very uneven in a laptop, mostly on one side where the CPU is.
Between old laptop batteries and old power tool batteries, and even written off cars, you can get a nearly infinite supply of very cheap/free LiPo cells that just need disassembling and testing.
The questioner only has a small amount of data to back up. In fact they only have 1TB total bulk storage, and I've got about 3.4TB on SpiderOak cloud backup with a fairly crappy internet connection. It takes time to upload, but you would be surprised how much you can send out overnight and while you are at work.
I'm on a special SpiderOak unlimited deal, but I think the normal deal should fit this person's budget. The client app is pretty good and can be run headless via the command line.
I prefer offloading server maintenance to someone else. While I still keep copies of really important stuff myself, services like Google Nearline and Amazon's cold storage are much more reliable than anything you can run at home without it costing you a fortune. They don't just RAID stuff, they duplicate it and geographically distribute it. Plus they have datacentre grade power filtering and UPS.
I'd love to see some hard data on the chance of data loss on those cloud services vs. typical home set-ups.
In all of those cases you would not be liable for the accident unless you were speeding.
Sure, it would be great if drivers could avoid those accidents, but the point is that if you just applied the brakes you wouldn't be legally liable for the injuries or damage. The person who made the mistake of walking into the road or backing out without looking or not securing their load could not absolve themselves of blame by expecting you to swerve.
It's hard to imagine a situation where you could "obviously" have swerved to avoid a collision that was caused by someone else's actions. Can you give an example?
In the UK you are supposed to go slowly enough that you can always stop. Obviously if someone else makes a mistake and you can't stop it's not your fault. In that case swerving might help, but you are not obliged to risk it out punished if you don't do it.
Swerving could make things worse. Then liability gets complicated.
A lot of people haven't even left home by 35 these days. Property prices and rent are insane in areas with jobs. 35 is when you realize your life is going to be a lot worse than your parent's lives, and you aren't going to retire at 65, or ever...
Why use SMS at all? It's best to use time based codes with an app like Google Authenticator. It's an open standard so other apps are available and it works with many services.
The only disadvantage is that you can't easily move it to another phone with the Google app, you basically have to generate new codes for all the services that use it.
You missed the "call them" bit before the world "faggot". You have to use it as a homophobic insult for it to count, and the law doesn't enumerate such insults.
As for who decides, ultimately it is a jury. Aside from the question of it is a good idea to prosecute people for these kinds of insults alone, the main issue is that even if a jury finds you innocent the CPS' poor judgement can cause you serious problems.
What does riling people up have to do with this law?
It's specifically about the use of homophobic, racist and sexist language. You can annoy people all you like, just don't call them a faggot or a nig nog while doing so.
Personally I think that's still too much and the law should require a higher bar, but it's not what most people where seem to think it is.
It's interesting that no-one else puts "kleenex" on their boxes of tissue paper though. Aside from not wanting to waste money on the inevitable lawsuit, I have a feeling that consumers would start returning their products when they realize what the deception is, costing them money.
Assuming Google lost its trademark on search products, I wonder if other companies would start using the term "google" in relation to their search engines. Seems like a rather shady thing to do, with no non-malicious motivations being apparent.
Cars won't decide who to kill. They will never be programmed to make that decision, and thus there will be no liability.
Human drivers are taught to drive that way too. The laws surrounding driving don't require you to decide on a course of action based on who will die, they require you perform certain prescribed manoeuvres (e.g. an emergency stop) and to generally drive carefully. If you didn't create the conditions that caused the accident in the first place, you can't be held liable for not choosing suicide over killing someone else.
Self-driving cars will be programmed to slow down when they sense a dangerous situation, and stop if required. They will never be designed to swerve into oncoming traffic to avoid a flock of nuns stepping out, or to save the busload of schoolkids instead of the occupants. They will just come to a stop as quickly as possible, and the only liability will be if the car did something prior to create the accident.
It probably gets the time from the GPS receiver. Most GPS receivers still use RS232 signalling (at 3.3V level), and most use the simple NMEA protocol. It would not be at all difficult to program a microcontroller to man-in-the-middle the data and change the date. The main difficulty would be physically installing it.
I wonder what happens if you firewall that app so it can't check for updates. If you are on Android and want to try there are loads of free firewall apps.
Is piracy of sports TV not popular in the US then?
In the UK there is massive piracy of sports, particularly football. It is really, really expensive to watch legitimately so people just buy pre-loaded Kodi boxes and watch pirate streams.
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When you get people like that at the very top, it normalizes their behaviour and views. That's why Trump's opponents keep saying "this is not normal".
I like their Dynabook line. It's not quite as indestructible as the Toughbook range, but it is rugged. I have an old Core 2 era one which claims it will withstand 100kg on the lid (i.e. being sat on). It looks more or less like a normal laptop.
If it sells really depends on how quickly lawmakers can come up with a workable system to allow small aircraft to zip around cities in a reasonably safe manner.
Yeah, several terabytes over years. He isn't producing massive volumes of data (one or two HDDs' worth) and over a long period of time.
Having said that, for video YouTube isn't bad. Free, unlimited, reasonable quality, videos can be private. Download is a bit of an issue but I'd use it as secondary storage of the video wasn't sensitive.
Well, technically true but it's actually illegal to walk along the motorway here and if you did and got hit there would be no question of it being your fault.
I'd rather the car was designed so that it drove slowly when there were parked cars where pedestrians might leap out without warning, and have a front end designed to avoid killing them if it does collide.
EU standards actually require the front of the car to be designed to make pedestrian accidents survivable. Many cities have 20 MPH limits in residential areas.
Do you have links to any of these lawsuits? I'm genuinely interested in the legal arguments used.
Once again, RMS is proven right. Unless you have the source code to the firmware and the ability to load your own versions, you don't own that thing and the real owner will eventually screw you.
Reminds me of that guy who got a partial refund from Amazon when Sony removed the Other OS (Linux) feature from his PS3.
In the UK you would be entitled a refund proportional to the loss of functionality and the time that the device had been functional for vs. its expected lifetime. Something like this you could reasonable expect at least a decade out of, so say you had it for two years and the lost functionality made it useless to you, that would be an 80% refund. From the seller, not the manufacturer.
Hopefully shops will stop selling stuff from companies that do this, because they are the ones who have to issue the refunds.
You would be surprised how many good cells get thrown away. Often one cell in a pack dies and the whole pack is discarded, despite the rest of the cells having plenty of life left in them.
Written off cars are another source of well maintained, barely used cells - a Nissan Leaf 24kWh pack will easily do 200k miles with 20% capacity loss even with constant rapid charging and 100% top-offs, so one with 40k miles that gets written off is going to have a lot of cells with a lot of life left in them.
Laptop batteries are made up for several individual cells. Often only one or two cells die, and the rest are fine. Take the pack apart, test each cell and discard the duff ones.
This happens because cheap cells have variable quality, and because heat kills batteries but tends to be very uneven in a laptop, mostly on one side where the CPU is.
Between old laptop batteries and old power tool batteries, and even written off cars, you can get a nearly infinite supply of very cheap/free LiPo cells that just need disassembling and testing.
Their client software is still crap.
I recommend SpiderOak. The client has a reasonable GUI that lets you select exactly what to back up, and can also run from the command line.
As an alternative there are a few apps that support general cloud storage services like Google Nearline and Amazon S3.
The questioner only has a small amount of data to back up. In fact they only have 1TB total bulk storage, and I've got about 3.4TB on SpiderOak cloud backup with a fairly crappy internet connection. It takes time to upload, but you would be surprised how much you can send out overnight and while you are at work.
I'm on a special SpiderOak unlimited deal, but I think the normal deal should fit this person's budget. The client app is pretty good and can be run headless via the command line.
I prefer offloading server maintenance to someone else. While I still keep copies of really important stuff myself, services like Google Nearline and Amazon's cold storage are much more reliable than anything you can run at home without it costing you a fortune. They don't just RAID stuff, they duplicate it and geographically distribute it. Plus they have datacentre grade power filtering and UPS.
I'd love to see some hard data on the chance of data loss on those cloud services vs. typical home set-ups.
In all of those cases you would not be liable for the accident unless you were speeding.
Sure, it would be great if drivers could avoid those accidents, but the point is that if you just applied the brakes you wouldn't be legally liable for the injuries or damage. The person who made the mistake of walking into the road or backing out without looking or not securing their load could not absolve themselves of blame by expecting you to swerve.
It's hard to imagine a situation where you could "obviously" have swerved to avoid a collision that was caused by someone else's actions. Can you give an example?
In the UK you are supposed to go slowly enough that you can always stop. Obviously if someone else makes a mistake and you can't stop it's not your fault. In that case swerving might help, but you are not obliged to risk it out punished if you don't do it.
Swerving could make things worse. Then liability gets complicated.
A lot of people haven't even left home by 35 these days. Property prices and rent are insane in areas with jobs. 35 is when you realize your life is going to be a lot worse than your parent's lives, and you aren't going to retire at 65, or ever...
Why use SMS at all? It's best to use time based codes with an app like Google Authenticator. It's an open standard so other apps are available and it works with many services.
The only disadvantage is that you can't easily move it to another phone with the Google app, you basically have to generate new codes for all the services that use it.
You missed the "call them" bit before the world "faggot". You have to use it as a homophobic insult for it to count, and the law doesn't enumerate such insults.
As for who decides, ultimately it is a jury. Aside from the question of it is a good idea to prosecute people for these kinds of insults alone, the main issue is that even if a jury finds you innocent the CPS' poor judgement can cause you serious problems.
What does riling people up have to do with this law?
It's specifically about the use of homophobic, racist and sexist language. You can annoy people all you like, just don't call them a faggot or a nig nog while doing so.
Personally I think that's still too much and the law should require a higher bar, but it's not what most people where seem to think it is.
It's interesting that no-one else puts "kleenex" on their boxes of tissue paper though. Aside from not wanting to waste money on the inevitable lawsuit, I have a feeling that consumers would start returning their products when they realize what the deception is, costing them money.
Assuming Google lost its trademark on search products, I wonder if other companies would start using the term "google" in relation to their search engines. Seems like a rather shady thing to do, with no non-malicious motivations being apparent.
Cars won't decide who to kill. They will never be programmed to make that decision, and thus there will be no liability.
Human drivers are taught to drive that way too. The laws surrounding driving don't require you to decide on a course of action based on who will die, they require you perform certain prescribed manoeuvres (e.g. an emergency stop) and to generally drive carefully. If you didn't create the conditions that caused the accident in the first place, you can't be held liable for not choosing suicide over killing someone else.
Self-driving cars will be programmed to slow down when they sense a dangerous situation, and stop if required. They will never be designed to swerve into oncoming traffic to avoid a flock of nuns stepping out, or to save the busload of schoolkids instead of the occupants. They will just come to a stop as quickly as possible, and the only liability will be if the car did something prior to create the accident.
It probably gets the time from the GPS receiver. Most GPS receivers still use RS232 signalling (at 3.3V level), and most use the simple NMEA protocol. It would not be at all difficult to program a microcontroller to man-in-the-middle the data and change the date. The main difficulty would be physically installing it.
I wonder what happens if you firewall that app so it can't check for updates. If you are on Android and want to try there are loads of free firewall apps.
Is piracy of sports TV not popular in the US then?
In the UK there is massive piracy of sports, particularly football. It is really, really expensive to watch legitimately so people just buy pre-loaded Kodi boxes and watch pirate streams.