But Google doesn't like the game, sees it as dirty pool and has decided to at least call its opponents on their dirty (if lamentably legal) tactics.
But is it legal? if all of their competitors are getting together and using them to try to get rid of competition from google, isn't that what the anti-trust/monopoly laws were meant to stop?
10 minutes is by far not enough for several reasons. note: i have had computers and electronics seized by the DHS and kept for nearly 2 years (i was never charged and eventually everything was returned). my point is i have been on the receiving end of this, and even though having your stuff seized, especially if you have done nothing wrong, is really annoying, i will say that i understand why they keep it as long as they do.
the problem is entirely 100% the lawyers. if the police were only to take 10 minutes to copy the data and then return the device the defense lawyers would throw a fit and would argue how can it be proved that data came from a phone that is no longer in their possession. this is why they need to keep the physical devices until the case is either closed/dropped or all appeals are exhausted, even if on initial inspection they don't find anything useful on it. who knows on latter inspection maybe more information will be found that was missed the first time that can help either the defense or prosecution.
Where did i say they should be forced to open it just because it is hard? I was just stating it is extremely hard to do where the GP was saying they couldn't find competent people to brute force it. it doesn't matter how competent your people are it is near impossible to break a well implemented encryption scheme with a strong password.
I never stated that meant they should be able to compel you to turn over your passwords. Please don't put words in my mouth that i never said.
They can pry my passwords from my cold dead hands.
It isn't that they can't get competent people to crack an "electronic safe", the problem is that the electronic safes are exponentially harder to crack than the physical ones. The problem is even the best of the best electronic safe crackers can't crack the electronic safe (assuming the owner used a secure password) because they are built around the premise that it takes thousands of years to break the combination.
why does being a "company" suddenly make it ok to break the 4th amendment? all companies are owned by one or more individuals, so it is still private property
then tax the batteries that go into an electric car. the batteries are going to have a certain lifetime and will need to be replaced after a certain number or recharge cycles....those recharge cycles will roughly equate to the amount of usage of the vehicle.
however i think the mileage tax, or a battery tax such as i laid out above is a bad idea, i think they should just increase the gas tax for the time being to give incentive for people to buy more fuel efficient vehicles, instead of trying to find new novel ways to tax them.
The place i work has electronic locks on many of our doors throughout multiple buildings. (note: i programmed portions of it) the internal doors will unlock based on a schedule from our events software without interaction from anyone. however the external doors require someone to hit a button in the software to unlock. they can hit a single button to unlock all public external doors, however they don't unlock themselves without someone hitting that button.
so if the buildings were unmanned some of the internal doors might still unlock, however no one would be able to get into the building because the outside doors would remain locked.
your point is taken, but had you just looked at the pictures and not necessarily read the article...it appears it may be an SUV and not technically a truck.:-)
assuming the picture of the guy holding up the pictures is the guy they are talking about in the article. the picture look on the ticket looks like it may be a SUV.
also if you had read the article you would have also noticed that the pictures are taken roughly 50ft after the car passes the speed sensors
according to google... 50 mph = 73.3333333 feet per second
so that gives the vehicle about an additional.68 seconds to decelerate before the first picture is even taken.
so assuming your calculations above are right that is roughly 15 mph of braking the car could do before the first photo is even taken....50mph-15mph=35 mph...which could put him at the speed limit before the first photo is taken.
this was just some quick estimation, but i think the calculations work out.
What's even funnier is that these metric superiority trolls will do a quick 180 (see, gasp, a non-metric unit again!) when it comes time for them to argue over whether customers are getting full value when marketing uses a Metric Gigabyte (1GB=1,000,000,000 bytes) instead of a "Real Gigabyte" (1Gibibyte=1,073,741,824 bytes) when stating the capacity of storage media.
I agree with most of what you said, however would argue that the "Real Gigabyte" is a metric unit in the computer realm. computers operate in base 2, you can't have half a bit so it makes most sense for the measuring units to be expressed in base 2.
add a small fraction here, and a small fraction there then eventually you will have a big fraction.
solar power is a good thing to work on, however we don't get all our electricity from a single source now. we spread it out to a number of different source. we get some from nuclear, some from coal, some from oil. getting it from multiple sources adds redundancy in case something happens to one of them.
yes, hydro and geothermal are more localized to geographic areas, but the places that have it can still power a several towns with it. each town you power is still one less that needs non-renewable sources such as coal or oil. isn't that a step in the right direction?
what about wind? hydro? geothermal? ocean wave/tidal generators? and fission?
there are plenty of better options for nuclear now, but we have added self imposed limitations on them. we are afraid to build new reactors because the old 70's style reactors are dangerous and scary...well we have come a long way since then. lets demolish those and build better ones that don't have those issues. another issue everyone seems to always cite is the buildup of nuclear waste...well why aren't we recycling it? we recycle everything else. A great thing about nuclear waste is that we can recycle it into new fuel. but we have imposed limitations on ourselves because the reactors that can recycle the fuel can also be used to make materials for bombs. so we find it is better to drown ourselves in the nuclear waste to make sure we can't make any more bombs. well when we already have enough to glass the entire earth does it really matter if we can make one more?
a complaint against hyrdo is that it destroys habitation for wildlife, well the reservoir created by a dam also creates habitat for other creatures.
i really don't care how much power it takes to make or how much power i use at home. if the power we have now is somehow bad, lets focus on finding cleaner power then we don't have to reduce how much we use.
what is illegal about those kinds of conditions? my landlord can kick me out if i violate my lease...sounds similar to revoking the license to use the software...
neither do i, but i don't think we have enough info to determine if it is chemical, nuclear, or a fake. (maybe their paper which i haven't read would give some information) maybe there is a fitting somewhere that could be the source of copper and they neglected to account for it...
the problem is their paper was rejected because they themselves didn't have a proper theory as to how it worked, which is a bit troubling. and so we won't really know what is going on or if it is real until someone else can repeat their experiment and then people start analyzing what is going on.
it is important to try to understand what is going on, but once again, what difference is it if it is fusion or some chemical reaction, as long as more power comes out of it than is put in?
if it is chemical we call it a battery, and if it can last 6 months like they mention and would be able to cheaply power my house or car then i say "wahoo!"
if it is indeed some sort of nuclear reaction, then great.
if however they are frauds and faking the whole then then they really should be flogged.
but if they are getting more power out than they are putting in, does it really matter if it is truly a fusion reaction or just a complex chemical one? especially if the byproducts of the reaction are not hazardous.
i believe if you read the full article you will also notice that google stated that they have thought of such a scenario of apps sharing data, so they purposefully made it difficult for them to pass data back and forth to each other. so the recording app and the deliverer app secretly share data by updating various global phone settings such as the ring volume and backlight timeout.
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But Google doesn't like the game, sees it as dirty pool and has decided to at least call its opponents on their dirty (if lamentably legal) tactics.
But is it legal? if all of their competitors are getting together and using them to try to get rid of competition from google, isn't that what the anti-trust/monopoly laws were meant to stop?
10 minutes is by far not enough for several reasons. note: i have had computers and electronics seized by the DHS and kept for nearly 2 years (i was never charged and eventually everything was returned). my point is i have been on the receiving end of this, and even though having your stuff seized, especially if you have done nothing wrong, is really annoying, i will say that i understand why they keep it as long as they do.
the problem is entirely 100% the lawyers. if the police were only to take 10 minutes to copy the data and then return the device the defense lawyers would throw a fit and would argue how can it be proved that data came from a phone that is no longer in their possession. this is why they need to keep the physical devices until the case is either closed/dropped or all appeals are exhausted, even if on initial inspection they don't find anything useful on it. who knows on latter inspection maybe more information will be found that was missed the first time that can help either the defense or prosecution.
Where did i say they should be forced to open it just because it is hard? I was just stating it is extremely hard to do where the GP was saying they couldn't find competent people to brute force it. it doesn't matter how competent your people are it is near impossible to break a well implemented encryption scheme with a strong password.
I never stated that meant they should be able to compel you to turn over your passwords. Please don't put words in my mouth that i never said.
They can pry my passwords from my cold dead hands.
It isn't that they can't get competent people to crack an "electronic safe", the problem is that the electronic safes are exponentially harder to crack than the physical ones. The problem is even the best of the best electronic safe crackers can't crack the electronic safe (assuming the owner used a secure password) because they are built around the premise that it takes thousands of years to break the combination.
And if you are playing the russians, germans, etc in those games, the US is the bad guy for half the people playing as well.
why does being a "company" suddenly make it ok to break the 4th amendment? all companies are owned by one or more individuals, so it is still private property
then tax the batteries that go into an electric car. the batteries are going to have a certain lifetime and will need to be replaced after a certain number or recharge cycles....those recharge cycles will roughly equate to the amount of usage of the vehicle.
however i think the mileage tax, or a battery tax such as i laid out above is a bad idea, i think they should just increase the gas tax for the time being to give incentive for people to buy more fuel efficient vehicles, instead of trying to find new novel ways to tax them.
The place i work has electronic locks on many of our doors throughout multiple buildings. (note: i programmed portions of it) the internal doors will unlock based on a schedule from our events software without interaction from anyone. however the external doors require someone to hit a button in the software to unlock. they can hit a single button to unlock all public external doors, however they don't unlock themselves without someone hitting that button.
so if the buildings were unmanned some of the internal doors might still unlock, however no one would be able to get into the building because the outside doors would remain locked.
your point is taken, but had you just looked at the pictures and not necessarily read the article...it appears it may be an SUV and not technically a truck. :-)
assuming the picture of the guy holding up the pictures is the guy they are talking about in the article. the picture look on the ticket looks like it may be a SUV.
also if you had read the article you would have also noticed that the pictures are taken roughly 50ft after the car passes the speed sensors
according to google... 50 mph = 73.3333333 feet per second
so that gives the vehicle about an additional .68 seconds to decelerate before the first picture is even taken.
so assuming your calculations above are right that is roughly 15 mph of braking the car could do before the first photo is even taken....50mph-15mph=35 mph...which could put him at the speed limit before the first photo is taken.
this was just some quick estimation, but i think the calculations work out.
i refuse to use that word. give back the original meaning of gigabytes that were base 2!
it wasn't until the year 2000 that they hijacked it to be base 10 and then made up the stupid gibibytes term.
if you didn't grow up on earth that is a rather arbitrary definition for a meter. granted i am pretty sure most people i know grew up on earth...
What's even funnier is that these metric superiority trolls will do a quick 180 (see, gasp, a non-metric unit again!) when it comes time for them to argue over whether customers are getting full value when marketing uses a Metric Gigabyte (1GB=1,000,000,000 bytes) instead of a "Real Gigabyte" (1Gibibyte=1,073,741,824 bytes) when stating the capacity of storage media.
I agree with most of what you said, however would argue that the "Real Gigabyte" is a metric unit in the computer realm. computers operate in base 2, you can't have half a bit so it makes most sense for the measuring units to be expressed in base 2.
add a small fraction here, and a small fraction there then eventually you will have a big fraction.
solar power is a good thing to work on, however we don't get all our electricity from a single source now. we spread it out to a number of different source. we get some from nuclear, some from coal, some from oil. getting it from multiple sources adds redundancy in case something happens to one of them.
yes, hydro and geothermal are more localized to geographic areas, but the places that have it can still power a several towns with it. each town you power is still one less that needs non-renewable sources such as coal or oil. isn't that a step in the right direction?
there are plenty more options than that.
what about wind? hydro? geothermal? ocean wave/tidal generators? and fission?
there are plenty of better options for nuclear now, but we have added self imposed limitations on them. we are afraid to build new reactors because the old 70's style reactors are dangerous and scary...well we have come a long way since then. lets demolish those and build better ones that don't have those issues. another issue everyone seems to always cite is the buildup of nuclear waste...well why aren't we recycling it? we recycle everything else. A great thing about nuclear waste is that we can recycle it into new fuel. but we have imposed limitations on ourselves because the reactors that can recycle the fuel can also be used to make materials for bombs. so we find it is better to drown ourselves in the nuclear waste to make sure we can't make any more bombs. well when we already have enough to glass the entire earth does it really matter if we can make one more?
a complaint against hyrdo is that it destroys habitation for wildlife, well the reservoir created by a dam also creates habitat for other creatures.
i really don't care how much power it takes to make or how much power i use at home. if the power we have now is somehow bad, lets focus on finding cleaner power then we don't have to reduce how much we use.
if we already have enough nukes to glass the entire earth then what difference does it make if we can make more anyway?
it isn't the use of the bulbs that has been banned. it is the manufacture and sale of them that has been banned
i like this quote from the article...
The April 26, 1986 accident was the largest nuclear accident in the world, and only a level 7 event on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
"only a level 7"? from my searching that is the highest the scale goes to...
what is illegal about those kinds of conditions? my landlord can kick me out if i violate my lease...sounds similar to revoking the license to use the software...
until someone writes the script
`/dev/rand | chooseplay`
neither do i, but i don't think we have enough info to determine if it is chemical, nuclear, or a fake. (maybe their paper which i haven't read would give some information) maybe there is a fitting somewhere that could be the source of copper and they neglected to account for it...
the problem is their paper was rejected because they themselves didn't have a proper theory as to how it worked, which is a bit troubling. and so we won't really know what is going on or if it is real until someone else can repeat their experiment and then people start analyzing what is going on.
it is important to try to understand what is going on, but once again, what difference is it if it is fusion or some chemical reaction, as long as more power comes out of it than is put in?
if it is chemical we call it a battery, and if it can last 6 months like they mention and would be able to cheaply power my house or car then i say "wahoo!"
if it is indeed some sort of nuclear reaction, then great.
if however they are frauds and faking the whole then then they really should be flogged.
but if they are getting more power out than they are putting in, does it really matter if it is truly a fusion reaction or just a complex chemical one? especially if the byproducts of the reaction are not hazardous.
i believe if you read the full article you will also notice that google stated that they have thought of such a scenario of apps sharing data, so they purposefully made it difficult for them to pass data back and forth to each other. so the recording app and the deliverer app secretly share data by updating various global phone settings such as the ring volume and backlight timeout.