I know that carburetted dirt bikes will run fine on ethanol, but you have to be very careful about either completely draining the carb before putting them away for even a few week, or (preferably and) add something like stabil to the gas. The ethanol based gas goes off in a float bowl quickly and you're stuck cleaning the jets.
Chrome on Android has a Data Saver setting which does the same thing, routes you through Google for compression. Looks like it's also available in the Chrome store.
As others have pointed out, when they say "IoT devices" they usually turn out to mean "embedded Linux box", and any articles where I've seen details they really seem to come down to the cheap linux-based-activex-clients-only security camera DVRs which usually have you open port 9000 or something to get external access. Many of these things, in addition to other vulnerabilities, have a hard coded root password.
Most other developed nations that utilize a lot of desalination (Saudi Arabia, Israel, UAE, etc.) actually pay less than 1/3rd per liter for desalinated water than we pay for water in Ventura County. If we could desalinate our water, we should be able to - theoretically - slash our water costs by a factor of 3...
The apparent paradox of very low water tariffs and water privatization is explained by government subsidies. The government buys desalinated water from private operators at high prices and resells the bulk water for free.
According to a 2000 estimate by the World Bank, the government paid annual subsidies of US$3.2 billion, equivalent to 1.7% of GDP and 7% of oil revenues.
By "traditional" I think he means "artisinal", not "standard". Slate and tile are certainly not standard roof materials these days. I'm also skeptical that these could last as long as slate - the slate on my house is 80 years old and mostly going strong.
Having said that, if I were in a suitable location and needed a new roof, I'd give these the old cost / benefit analysis.
As an Android user, I'll be interested to see if this is better than Skype for video calls. I have found Facetime to work way better than Skype over the same connections; Skype is sometimes so crappy that I'll borrow an iDevice instead.
Apple will price their products to reflect the development costs and engineering expense they invest to design and deliver new parts, services, and experience.
Up to a point that's true. In this case, however, I read an article which argued that the price hike had more to do with repositioning the Macbooks as the highest end of a continuum of products. Basically they need to be a reasonable jump up from the ipad pro, hence the new price. I tend to think that's the case, rather than them trying to recoup R&D costs.
"Vertical Take-off and Landing" (VTOL) vehicle is marketing bullshit for helicopter.
If the rotors turn forward and allow regular flight like an airplane after liftoff, then it's a VTOL - regular wings have efficiency and other advantages over helicopters which make this desirable.
The problem with some of these devices is that they also have a hardcoded root password. I have one like that - I kept it behind its own router since I didn't trust it, but took it offline a couple of months ago when I learned that it has a hardcoded root and no new firmware. I had changed the admin password of course, but that really didn't do anything. I'm no longer going to allow an open port for any device like this, but most people won't know how to set up a vpn for home.
These were headphones ("earpods"), not lightning cables. The originals which came with the phone lasted quite a long time, and the kids like the way they fit, so I wanted to get the real deal.
I recently bought a couple of "genuine Apple" headphones from Woot (owned by Amazon) thinking that with all the fakes around I should get them from someone legit. The first pair failed within a couple of weeks. I'm going to guess they were not, in fact, genuine. It does make it a pain when it seems that the apple store is about the only place you can be sure you're not getting a knockoff. I'm happy to buy knockoffs for certain things, but I like to know what I'm getting.
I know a guy who does just that; tethered to his phone, he can do Waze, Here maps or whatever. I like my Garmin + Waze on my phone. The Garmin is really a fallback for non-coverage areas.
Ah. I have been looking at the Amcrests, and I have set up zoneminder before, but I want remote access for my application. I may actually end up with some cloudy cameras (Blink or Arlo maybe), since at least they are connecting out to a server and not allowing access in. In theory they should be more secure that way.
You'll still be able to get a $5k car. You will just have to wait an extra 10 years after the original purchaser has paid the $3k for the autonomous upgrade to get one with self driving features. Think about it - even when they become available, they will initially only be a small part of the cars sold in, say, 2020. Even if they are the majority of cars sold by 2030, there will still be lots of used non autonomous cars available at that point and beyond. Maybe by 2050 it will be hard to get anything else, but who knows what Uber will be offering as a per mile rate by then - maybe car ownership will seem quaint to some people, at least in urban areas.
It would actually be pretty great if there were a site which would let you scan the ip address you were coming from (so you couldn't use it against others) with a full Metasploit style array of checks. It could be helpful to a lot of home users who have a basic NAT router going on, maybe with some port forwarding so they can get to various devices like DVRs.
Hopefully someone is going to chime in "You mean like..."
>According to them: "among the features people most care about in a high-end smartphone... is the camera."
My next phone, that's pretty much what it's going to come down to. I rarely use my headphone jack, don't really care about SD cards and removable batteries and don't really care too much about screen resolution. But I do use the camera quite a lot.
Yeah, at least once a month I get out to West Virginia and put my phone in airplane mode. I'll still use it to snap pictures, but where I go I don't have any service at all. It's great downtime.
If we committed to gradually raising taxes on fossil fuels in a predictable way, we would encourage the purchase of more energy efficient vehicles. Even prices half of what they have in Europe would go a long way towards this. If you knew that in 10 years the minimum price per gallon would be $4-5, and that taxes would be going up ~$.25 a year until then, your next car purchase might be a smaller one than otherwise. Opting for electric cars, while obviously a nice idea, is currently even harder for poor people than raising fuel prices. A Volt will be $30k after tax credits; a Corolla is less than half that.
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I know that carburetted dirt bikes will run fine on ethanol, but you have to be very careful about either completely draining the carb before putting them away for even a few week, or (preferably and) add something like stabil to the gas. The ethanol based gas goes off in a float bowl quickly and you're stuck cleaning the jets.
Chrome on Android has a Data Saver setting which does the same thing, routes you through Google for compression. Looks like it's also available in the Chrome store.
As others have pointed out, when they say "IoT devices" they usually turn out to mean "embedded Linux box", and any articles where I've seen details they really seem to come down to the cheap linux-based-activex-clients-only security camera DVRs which usually have you open port 9000 or something to get external access. Many of these things, in addition to other vulnerabilities, have a hard coded root password.
Most other developed nations that utilize a lot of desalination (Saudi Arabia, Israel, UAE, etc.) actually pay less than 1/3rd per liter for desalinated water than we pay for water in Ventura County. If we could desalinate our water, we should be able to - theoretically - slash our water costs by a factor of 3...
Sure, if you can get the Saudi government to subsidize you that might happen. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...:
The apparent paradox of very low water tariffs and water privatization is explained by government subsidies. The government buys desalinated water from private operators at high prices and resells the bulk water for free.
According to a 2000 estimate by the World Bank, the government paid annual subsidies of US$3.2 billion, equivalent to 1.7% of GDP and 7% of oil revenues.
By "traditional" I think he means "artisinal", not "standard". Slate and tile are certainly not standard roof materials these days. I'm also skeptical that these could last as long as slate - the slate on my house is 80 years old and mostly going strong.
Having said that, if I were in a suitable location and needed a new roof, I'd give these the old cost / benefit analysis.
As an Android user, I'll be interested to see if this is better than Skype for video calls. I have found Facetime to work way better than Skype over the same connections; Skype is sometimes so crappy that I'll borrow an iDevice instead.
If you drink good coffee you can leave the sugar out entirely!
Apple will price their products to reflect the development costs and engineering expense they invest to design and deliver new parts, services, and experience.
Up to a point that's true. In this case, however, I read an article which argued that the price hike had more to do with repositioning the Macbooks as the highest end of a continuum of products. Basically they need to be a reasonable jump up from the ipad pro, hence the new price. I tend to think that's the case, rather than them trying to recoup R&D costs.
"Vertical Take-off and Landing" (VTOL) vehicle is marketing bullshit for helicopter.
If the rotors turn forward and allow regular flight like an airplane after liftoff, then it's a VTOL - regular wings have efficiency and other advantages over helicopters which make this desirable.
The problem with some of these devices is that they also have a hardcoded root password. I have one like that - I kept it behind its own router since I didn't trust it, but took it offline a couple of months ago when I learned that it has a hardcoded root and no new firmware. I had changed the admin password of course, but that really didn't do anything.
I'm no longer going to allow an open port for any device like this, but most people won't know how to set up a vpn for home.
These were headphones ("earpods"), not lightning cables. The originals which came with the phone lasted quite a long time, and the kids like the way they fit, so I wanted to get the real deal.
I recently bought a couple of "genuine Apple" headphones from Woot (owned by Amazon) thinking that with all the fakes around I should get them from someone legit. The first pair failed within a couple of weeks. I'm going to guess they were not, in fact, genuine. It does make it a pain when it seems that the apple store is about the only place you can be sure you're not getting a knockoff. I'm happy to buy knockoffs for certain things, but I like to know what I'm getting.
This. In DC area traffic, Waze is great.
I know a guy who does just that; tethered to his phone, he can do Waze, Here maps or whatever. I like my Garmin + Waze on my phone. The Garmin is really a fallback for non-coverage areas.
Ah. I have been looking at the Amcrests, and I have set up zoneminder before, but I want remote access for my application. I may actually end up with some cloudy cameras (Blink or Arlo maybe), since at least they are connecting out to a server and not allowing access in. In theory they should be more secure that way.
Do you have external access to your zoneminder system?
Yeah, those deaths should decline as a result of self driving cars too.
You'll still be able to get a $5k car. You will just have to wait an extra 10 years after the original purchaser has paid the $3k for the autonomous upgrade to get one with self driving features. Think about it - even when they become available, they will initially only be a small part of the cars sold in, say, 2020. Even if they are the majority of cars sold by 2030, there will still be lots of used non autonomous cars available at that point and beyond. Maybe by 2050 it will be hard to get anything else, but who knows what Uber will be offering as a per mile rate by then - maybe car ownership will seem quaint to some people, at least in urban areas.
Sure - Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, and Thanksgiving.
You're welcome!
It would actually be pretty great if there were a site which would let you scan the ip address you were coming from (so you couldn't use it against others) with a full Metasploit style array of checks. It could be helpful to a lot of home users who have a basic NAT router going on, maybe with some port forwarding so they can get to various devices like DVRs.
Hopefully someone is going to chime in "You mean like..."
I think, therefore I am.
>According to them: "among the features people most care about in a high-end smartphone ... is the camera."
My next phone, that's pretty much what it's going to come down to. I rarely use my headphone jack, don't really care about SD cards and removable batteries and don't really care too much about screen resolution. But I do use the camera quite a lot.
My kids are the same. No way I can get them to switch to Android.
Yeah, at least once a month I get out to West Virginia and put my phone in airplane mode. I'll still use it to snap pictures, but where I go I don't have any service at all. It's great downtime.
If we committed to gradually raising taxes on fossil fuels in a predictable way, we would encourage the purchase of more energy efficient vehicles. Even prices half of what they have in Europe would go a long way towards this. If you knew that in 10 years the minimum price per gallon would be $4-5, and that taxes would be going up ~$.25 a year until then, your next car purchase might be a smaller one than otherwise.
Opting for electric cars, while obviously a nice idea, is currently even harder for poor people than raising fuel prices. A Volt will be $30k after tax credits; a Corolla is less than half that.