Did you know that there are only about 100 unique car key "encodings"? This means that if you have a Ford the chances are excellent that your key will open the door of some other Ford in an airport parking lot.
Untrue. Ford (the example you offer) has since 1984 used a key with 10 cut positions with 5 possible depths, which is 9,765,625 (5^10) possible combinations. The door only uses the first four cuts, so in theory the odds are 1 in 625 that any given key will open a random car's door. With worn locks and/or intentionally half-cut tryout keys, that drops to 1 in 256 at best. The ignition uses the last 6 cuts, so it's only a useful trick for getting at the contents of the car. The reason it's not a problem is that opening a random car door is largely useless, and opening a specific car door can be accomplished much quicker through methods other than standing there going through a giant ring of tryout keys.
It almost doesn't matter how much fixing the security might cost as long as it is $1 more than keeping the holes secret and defending against probing.
Except that fixing the problem is a a predictable, one time expense, and "keeping it quiet" is a never-ending process. The latter will continue forever until the former action is taken, so now which path is cheaper?
just imagine plugging your car in at the mall, forgetting to set a max out, and coming back to find you've downloaded 32 gigajoules, and that'll be 1000$ please sir.
A full capacitor, like a full gas tank, won't accept additional charge. Plus, you can't spill electricity, so no, you're scenario is dumb.
One way to get them is to set up some sort of site that logically requires you to log in, let it become popular, then harvest the password file and use it in your attacks. Be sure to make the site geeky, though, to get good passwords and give it an attention-getting name. Something like "Slashdot."
Snorf. Try that with my password and you gain access to only a really pitiful Cobalt Qube with my friend's baby picture web site on it. Or you could just log in using the name of the site as UID and PW.
But yeah, that'd work for a lot of other's systems, I bet.
Government-paid television doesn't necessarily mean government-controlled television.
This is true, but I think here in the US the jackass quotient is so high that would be no shortage of people demanding this be covered or that not be covered, and no shortage of government jackasses who agree with them. I imagine something like the FCC, only with actual creative input.
the Bill of Rights was written as a "sure, we'll put it in just to be safe" thing. It wasn't part of the original negotiated plan, and was likely written by a legislator who was trying to compe up with a good inclusive list one afternoon.
Worse, it was essentially written by a committee of representatives from the individual states. One faction would want X Y and Z to be emphasized, another wanted A B and C, another A X and F, so we ended up with Amendments saying "A B C F X Y Z, and also the kitchen sink". For example, the @nd is a compromise between the faction that wanted to emphasize the states' right to call up the militia, and another the individual right to keep and bear arms. Subsequently we have an amendment that says both in a somewhat awkward way.
Another problem is that they were all drinking heavily. Copies of their liquor bill have been found, and it's absolutely astounding.
To quote Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters, "Print is dead."
25 years too early, but it was a very insightful prediction nonetheless. The problem newspapers are facing is that they have historically filled a very specific niche: rapid distribution of largely perishable information, i.e. "news". In the beginning, advances in communication technology only helped newspapers, as they were expensive and only a well funded entity could afford to transmit and receive information over long distances. TV and radio were the first to threaten newspapers, but they actually ended up just exploiting a new market for the most part--- "live" news--- as they're limited to the relatively low-speed communication inherent to the spoken word. Newspapers held an advantage purely in bandwidth. Large quantities of printed information on cheap pulp delivered to your door beat anything TV or radio could offer in sheer volume of information.
Then came the publicly available Internet. Essentially at one stroke, newspapers were pushed to second place in bandwidth. Even a 56Kbps dialup connection could feed the printed word faster and in greater volume than a printing press. Newspapers were doomed, but they didn't know it yet. It took some time for people to catch on. I personally put the tipping point about four years ago. For decades the local newspaper where I live has run an annoying telemarketing division to badger people into getting the local paper. About four years ago, I started answering their entreaties with "no thanks, I already read that paper online for free". These telemarketers, who historically had a scripted response to any excuse, could only respond "oh, OK, thanks for your time"! When a Los Angeles Times telemarketer can't come up with a reason for you to subscribe, the jig is up.
Your not understanding the downmod, along with the link to your dictionary. now make me think that you are probably Japanese and did not intend to be sarcastic.
If you actually bothered to click the link and scroll down to the bottom of the page to the contact info, you'd see that he's NOT japanese. He was being sarcastic. Troll mod was appropriate. It doesn't matter if someone can name the member orgs of the RIAA. We all know the represent the major labels plus a crapload of smaller ones (a lot of them "boutique" labels controlled by the biggies).
a 16 gig usb drive to transfer files, One lappy for home, one for the office
Carrying around a few files on a thumb drive works great for hosers like you and me maybe, but my wife tried for months to keep Thunderbird and a huge customer database synced between home and work, and it was just a nightmare. Granted, part of the problem was the Maxtor backup software, but still, it's a major pain. She eventually gave up and just carries a giant Dell laptop around.
Of course now I get to hear about the crappy Alps touchpad driver and the general suckitude of Dell products, so it doesn't help ME any.
I'd be curious to know which conditions for which it was effective...
I had a Bell's Palsy. Went to several acupuncturists and a chiropractor, and it was gone very quickly.
Skeptics will claim that's placebo effect, i.e. you paid good money for your treatments, so you convinced yourself they'd work. Personally, I've seen an I Kung practitioner (acupuncture, only without needles, just directed qi) cure diagnosed schizophrenia, cure cancers (twice), and induce reparatory nerve growth in a paraplegic. He also got rid of my "Gulf War Syndrome". My GWS cure shouldn't surprise skeptics, as most people think GWS is psychosomatic-- I just thought I was sick and tired all the time--- but if those others were placebo effect, then that old Chinese dude must know some pretty convincing placebo tricks, particularly with the schizophrenic woman, who know where she was at first, much less know that it was supposed to help.
Sure, the plural of anecdote isn't data, but it takes a pretty thick internal ideology to reject observed correlations simply because the subject matter is known to defy direct scientific analysis.
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we already have a scientific theory to explain acupuncture, gate control theory. We've even anatomically determined how it works. Signals from the brain travel down the spinal cord which synapse on inhibitory interneurons in the dorsal horn. These interneurons attenuate the pain signal before it reaches the brain.
That being the case, I'd love to hear how acupuncture and other traditional chinese medicine treatments that work on the same theory as acupuncture manage to fix conditions that aren't pain related.
What's this "Lucetania" thing? Do you mean the RMS Lusitania?
Conspiracy theories are comforting because they let people think that world events are under someone's control, even if it is with malicious intent. Unfortunately, the unpleasant truth is that there generally isn't a conspiracy, and world events unfold largely out of control, spurred on by ignorance, incompetence, and general bloody-mindedness.
One of my favorites. How much suffering and unnecessary shame has been generated because some marginally literate idiot mistranslated the Hebrew word for "young woman" as "virgin" and the Catholic church decided to use that as a cornerstone of their theology?
People seem to forget a lot that a lot of the most brilliant science developments for a long time was due mainly to religion.
That's arguing that the bathwater is OK because there's a baby in it. The fact that many scientific discoveries happened in a religious context is no more relevant than the moon landings happening in a NASA context. There'd have been science without religion just as there would be moon landings without Cape Canaveral.
Directly and indirectly, religon has been responsible for more people dying than any other cause EVER.
I see this often, but it's just plain wrong.
Secular leaders ushering in various forms of extreme socialism managed to surpass it in a single century, and general nationalism was far ahead of it anyway.
Actually, if you examine the top "secular" deathmongering followings, you find that their "non-religious" states actually implemented the same exact sort of faith-based unswerving belief in fact-defying mythology you find in religion. National Socialism was based on "uncritical loyalty" to the Fuhrer, and embraced such outlandish beliefs as that the Aryans were not descended from apes, but were aliens from outer space sent to rule the Earth; the Marxist/Communist regimes (while paying lip service to rationalism) were marked by rigid adherence to laughable ideologies like the "socialist" biology of Lysenko, as distinguished from "capitalist" biology of Mendel and Darwin. Face it, the only thing that can motivate people to mass-murder is an irrational, unjustified belief in some sort of bullshit worldview. "Faith", i.e. unjustified belief, is the very heart of the definition of religion. The most monstrous crimes against humanity have invariably been inspired by unjustified belief. It is the propensity for people to ignorantly believe in religious or religion-analogous movements that is the problem. Religion is a weird "protected" bit of cultural idiocy that for some reason people think should be "tolerated" because "we're all different". Well, ignorance and irrationality isn't some special "different" sort of intelligence, any more than not being able to read is a special sort of literacy. Religion is a cancer. The sooner we can shitcan it as a species, the better.
Not only slavery, but capital punishment for most crimes. The trouble people have is that we really only have the notes made by the visionaries of that time, and they're trying to compare that to the teeming masses of Oprah viewers now. They had their teeming masses of slackjaws then too, they just didn't bother to write down what they said.
Your exactly right, except that homes really don't go up in value at all, and never have. People just think they go up in value because they go up in price. What they really are is a hedge against inflation.
Take a look at housing prices in major cities like NY, LA, SF, etc. Inflation has not been a cumulative 400% in the last 10 years (and this is just the natural curve, minus the "spike" we saw peak a couple years ago).
Only after you stop murdering your children, and by "murder" I mean fail to pay them additional allowance for not crapping their pants.
Having paid off our congress to continuously extend copyright far beyond its intended utility does not give them even a sliver of moral credibility. The works in question did not spring from a vacuum. They are the fruits of our common culture. Reasonable recompense adequate to encourage the works' creation is all they are due (just as it says in the Constitution) and complete control for two lifetimes is not reasonable. The fact that it's the law does not make it automagically right.
Seriously, you still call copyright infringement "stealing" despite having it explained to you hundreds of times exactly why it isn't in any way related to stealing? You're an idiot.
My vote would if you can, bring 480v 3-phase into the garage, plop down a small transformer, and then you can use 240v, 208v, 120v, all at the same time if you need to.
Snort. I dunno, maybe I don't hang out with a rich enough crowd, but it seems to me that having a 3-5 thousand dollar power center installed because a future electric car MIGHT use a 480V charging system seems a bit extravagant. I reckon he ought to just have 1.25" EMT run from the panel to a box in the garage and wait till he knows what the car needs.
Most of the world runs on 220-250V. I think the US made a bad guess with 110V. It is too expensive to deliver high current at low voltage.
Not a bad guess but a conscious choice. Split-phase systems like we have in the US allow for a self-balancing load to a neutral return split between two lower voltage conductors. The lower voltage also results in a less dangerous ground-fault than 220V single-wire systems when used for small appliances while still providing 220V (if needed) by attaching a load between the two phases directly.
So really, the US chose safety and flexibility at the cost of requiring more copper, rather than going with the more dangerous (but cheaper to implement) "one voltage fits all, one conductor feeds all" path of 220V everywhere.
And the Corvair and Pinto were less of a death trap?
The Pinto was a deathtrap, sure, but not the Corvair. Ralph Nader is a grandstanding dickhead who basically launched his career on false accusations and shoddy methodology in Unsafe at Any Speed. After a 2 year investigation, the NHTSA determined that there wasn't any problem at all with the Corvair. Despite what Ralph Nader thought the law should have been, the fact remains that there was not and is not a requirement that a car fail gracefully when negligently driven beyond its capabilities. GM changed the design in '65 to widen the margin of safety, but automakers are under no obligation to save yoyos from themselves when they over-inflate their front tires and go hotrodding in their rear-engine swingaxle car. It's no different than idiots rolling their Ford Explorers because the smooth, car-like suspension makes them think they can weave in and out of heavy traffic like Mario Andretti.
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Did you know that there are only about 100 unique car key "encodings"? This means that if you have a Ford the chances are excellent that your key will open the door of some other Ford in an airport parking lot.
Untrue. Ford (the example you offer) has since 1984 used a key with 10 cut positions with 5 possible depths, which is 9,765,625 (5^10) possible combinations. The door only uses the first four cuts, so in theory the odds are 1 in 625 that any given key will open a random car's door. With worn locks and/or intentionally half-cut tryout keys, that drops to 1 in 256 at best. The ignition uses the last 6 cuts, so it's only a useful trick for getting at the contents of the car. The reason it's not a problem is that opening a random car door is largely useless, and opening a specific car door can be accomplished much quicker through methods other than standing there going through a giant ring of tryout keys.
It almost doesn't matter how much fixing the security might cost as long as it is $1 more than keeping the holes secret and defending against probing.
Except that fixing the problem is a a predictable, one time expense, and "keeping it quiet" is a never-ending process. The latter will continue forever until the former action is taken, so now which path is cheaper?
If it can really handle that sort of charge speed we're heading towards a way to store lightning.
Now THAT would be cool (figuratively speaking, of course :-)
Hey, the EEstore patent says they're 30.693 farads at 3500v...
just imagine plugging your car in at the mall, forgetting to set a max out, and coming back to find you've downloaded 32 gigajoules, and that'll be 1000$ please sir.
A full capacitor, like a full gas tank, won't accept additional charge. Plus, you can't spill electricity, so no, you're scenario is dumb.
One way to get them is to set up some sort of site that logically requires you to log in, let it become popular, then harvest the password file and use it in your attacks. Be sure to make the site geeky, though, to get good passwords and give it an attention-getting name. Something like "Slashdot."
Snorf. Try that with my password and you gain access to only a really pitiful Cobalt Qube with my friend's baby picture web site on it. Or you could just log in using the name of the site as UID and PW.
But yeah, that'd work for a lot of other's systems, I bet.
Government-paid television doesn't necessarily mean government-controlled television.
This is true, but I think here in the US the jackass quotient is so high that would be no shortage of people demanding this be covered or that not be covered, and no shortage of government jackasses who agree with them. I imagine something like the FCC, only with actual creative input.
the Bill of Rights was written as a "sure, we'll put it in just to be safe" thing. It wasn't part of the original negotiated plan, and was likely written by a legislator who was trying to compe up with a good inclusive list one afternoon.
Worse, it was essentially written by a committee of representatives from the individual states. One faction would want X Y and Z to be emphasized, another wanted A B and C, another A X and F, so we ended up with Amendments saying "A B C F X Y Z, and also the kitchen sink". For example, the @nd is a compromise between the faction that wanted to emphasize the states' right to call up the militia, and another the individual right to keep and bear arms. Subsequently we have an amendment that says both in a somewhat awkward way.
Another problem is that they were all drinking heavily. Copies of their liquor bill have been found, and it's absolutely astounding.
Newspapers were considered so important to the country that the first amendment to the Constitution preserved the freedom of the press.
No, free (as in liberty) dissemination of information in was considered important, so the dominant technology for that purpose was protected.
To quote Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters, "Print is dead."
25 years too early, but it was a very insightful prediction nonetheless. The problem newspapers are facing is that they have historically filled a very specific niche: rapid distribution of largely perishable information, i.e. "news". In the beginning, advances in communication technology only helped newspapers, as they were expensive and only a well funded entity could afford to transmit and receive information over long distances. TV and radio were the first to threaten newspapers, but they actually ended up just exploiting a new market for the most part--- "live" news--- as they're limited to the relatively low-speed communication inherent to the spoken word. Newspapers held an advantage purely in bandwidth. Large quantities of printed information on cheap pulp delivered to your door beat anything TV or radio could offer in sheer volume of information.
Then came the publicly available Internet. Essentially at one stroke, newspapers were pushed to second place in bandwidth. Even a 56Kbps dialup connection could feed the printed word faster and in greater volume than a printing press. Newspapers were doomed, but they didn't know it yet. It took some time for people to catch on. I personally put the tipping point about four years ago. For decades the local newspaper where I live has run an annoying telemarketing division to badger people into getting the local paper. About four years ago, I started answering their entreaties with "no thanks, I already read that paper online for free". These telemarketers, who historically had a scripted response to any excuse, could only respond "oh, OK, thanks for your time"! When a Los Angeles Times telemarketer can't come up with a reason for you to subscribe, the jig is up.
Your not understanding the downmod, along with the link to your dictionary. now make me think that you are probably Japanese and did not intend to be sarcastic.
If you actually bothered to click the link and scroll down to the bottom of the page to the contact info, you'd see that he's NOT japanese. He was being sarcastic. Troll mod was appropriate. It doesn't matter if someone can name the member orgs of the RIAA. We all know the represent the major labels plus a crapload of smaller ones (a lot of them "boutique" labels controlled by the biggies).
a 16 gig usb drive to transfer files, One lappy for home, one for the office
Carrying around a few files on a thumb drive works great for hosers like you and me maybe, but my wife tried for months to keep Thunderbird and a huge customer database synced between home and work, and it was just a nightmare. Granted, part of the problem was the Maxtor backup software, but still, it's a major pain. She eventually gave up and just carries a giant Dell laptop around.
Of course now I get to hear about the crappy Alps touchpad driver and the general suckitude of Dell products, so it doesn't help ME any.
ps: "Lappy"? What are you, four years old?
I'd be curious to know which conditions for which it was effective...
I had a Bell's Palsy. Went to several acupuncturists and a chiropractor, and it was gone very quickly.
Skeptics will claim that's placebo effect, i.e. you paid good money for your treatments, so you convinced yourself they'd work. Personally, I've seen an I Kung practitioner (acupuncture, only without needles, just directed qi) cure diagnosed schizophrenia, cure cancers (twice), and induce reparatory nerve growth in a paraplegic. He also got rid of my "Gulf War Syndrome". My GWS cure shouldn't surprise skeptics, as most people think GWS is psychosomatic-- I just thought I was sick and tired all the time--- but if those others were placebo effect, then that old Chinese dude must know some pretty convincing placebo tricks, particularly with the schizophrenic woman, who know where she was at first, much less know that it was supposed to help.
Sure, the plural of anecdote isn't data, but it takes a pretty thick internal ideology to reject observed correlations simply because the subject matter is known to defy direct scientific analysis.
we already have a scientific theory to explain acupuncture, gate control theory. We've even anatomically determined how it works. Signals from the brain travel down the spinal cord which synapse on inhibitory interneurons in the dorsal horn. These interneurons attenuate the pain signal before it reaches the brain.
That being the case, I'd love to hear how acupuncture and other traditional chinese medicine treatments that work on the same theory as acupuncture manage to fix conditions that aren't pain related.
What's this "Lucetania" thing? Do you mean the RMS Lusitania?
Conspiracy theories are comforting because they let people think that world events are under someone's control, even if it is with malicious intent. Unfortunately, the unpleasant truth is that there generally isn't a conspiracy, and world events unfold largely out of control, spurred on by ignorance, incompetence, and general bloody-mindedness.
Hanlon's Razor
nakedness might lead to sex, and virginity equals holiness according to the Roman Catholic church.
One of my favorites. How much suffering and unnecessary shame has been generated because some marginally literate idiot mistranslated the Hebrew word for "young woman" as "virgin" and the Catholic church decided to use that as a cornerstone of their theology?
People seem to forget a lot that a lot of the most brilliant science developments for a long time was due mainly to religion.
That's arguing that the bathwater is OK because there's a baby in it. The fact that many scientific discoveries happened in a religious context is no more relevant than the moon landings happening in a NASA context. There'd have been science without religion just as there would be moon landings without Cape Canaveral.
Directly and indirectly, religon has been responsible for more people dying than any other cause EVER.
I see this often, but it's just plain wrong.
Secular leaders ushering in various forms of extreme socialism managed to surpass it in a single century, and general nationalism was far ahead of it anyway.
Actually, if you examine the top "secular" deathmongering followings, you find that their "non-religious" states actually implemented the same exact sort of faith-based unswerving belief in fact-defying mythology you find in religion. National Socialism was based on "uncritical loyalty" to the Fuhrer, and embraced such outlandish beliefs as that the Aryans were not descended from apes, but were aliens from outer space sent to rule the Earth; the Marxist/Communist regimes (while paying lip service to rationalism) were marked by rigid adherence to laughable ideologies like the "socialist" biology of Lysenko, as distinguished from "capitalist" biology of Mendel and Darwin. Face it, the only thing that can motivate people to mass-murder is an irrational, unjustified belief in some sort of bullshit worldview. "Faith", i.e. unjustified belief, is the very heart of the definition of religion. The most monstrous crimes against humanity have invariably been inspired by unjustified belief. It is the propensity for people to ignorantly believe in religious or religion-analogous movements that is the problem. Religion is a weird "protected" bit of cultural idiocy that for some reason people think should be "tolerated" because "we're all different". Well, ignorance and irrationality isn't some special "different" sort of intelligence, any more than not being able to read is a special sort of literacy. Religion is a cancer. The sooner we can shitcan it as a species, the better.
Good God, can't you people get off your Anti-Religion Flaming Horse for one thread a day?
Tell me more about the horse. That sounds awesome.
Totally. I want to see this flaming horse! If we worship the Good God of Flaming Horse, do we get a flaming horse too?
Not only slavery, but capital punishment for most crimes. The trouble people have is that we really only have the notes made by the visionaries of that time, and they're trying to compare that to the teeming masses of Oprah viewers now. They had their teeming masses of slackjaws then too, they just didn't bother to write down what they said.
I disagree with you. Apple is synonymous with smartphones. At least in the eyes of consumers.
In the eyes of consumers who aren't the market for smartphones, maybe. Most people who need smartphone functionality don't buy a iPhones.
Your exactly right, except that homes really don't go up in value at all, and never have. People just think they go up in value because they go up in price. What they really are is a hedge against inflation.
Take a look at housing prices in major cities like NY, LA, SF, etc. Inflation has not been a cumulative 400% in the last 10 years (and this is just the natural curve, minus the "spike" we saw peak a couple years ago).
stop stealing and law-suits will stop.
Only after you stop murdering your children, and by "murder" I mean fail to pay them additional allowance for not crapping their pants.
Having paid off our congress to continuously extend copyright far beyond its intended utility does not give them even a sliver of moral credibility. The works in question did not spring from a vacuum. They are the fruits of our common culture. Reasonable recompense adequate to encourage the works' creation is all they are due (just as it says in the Constitution) and complete control for two lifetimes is not reasonable. The fact that it's the law does not make it automagically right.
Seriously, you still call copyright infringement "stealing" despite having it explained to you hundreds of times exactly why it isn't in any way related to stealing? You're an idiot.
My vote would if you can, bring 480v 3-phase into the garage, plop down a small transformer, and then you can use 240v, 208v, 120v, all at the same time if you need to.
Snort. I dunno, maybe I don't hang out with a rich enough crowd, but it seems to me that having a 3-5 thousand dollar power center installed because a future electric car MIGHT use a 480V charging system seems a bit extravagant. I reckon he ought to just have 1.25" EMT run from the panel to a box in the garage and wait till he knows what the car needs.
Most of the world runs on 220-250V. I think the US made a bad guess with 110V. It is too expensive to deliver high current at low voltage.
Not a bad guess but a conscious choice. Split-phase systems like we have in the US allow for a self-balancing load to a neutral return split between two lower voltage conductors. The lower voltage also results in a less dangerous ground-fault than 220V single-wire systems when used for small appliances while still providing 220V (if needed) by attaching a load between the two phases directly.
So really, the US chose safety and flexibility at the cost of requiring more copper, rather than going with the more dangerous (but cheaper to implement) "one voltage fits all, one conductor feeds all" path of 220V everywhere.
And the Corvair and Pinto were less of a death trap?
The Pinto was a deathtrap, sure, but not the Corvair. Ralph Nader is a grandstanding dickhead who basically launched his career on false accusations and shoddy methodology in Unsafe at Any Speed. After a 2 year investigation, the NHTSA determined that there wasn't any problem at all with the Corvair. Despite what Ralph Nader thought the law should have been, the fact remains that there was not and is not a requirement that a car fail gracefully when negligently driven beyond its capabilities. GM changed the design in '65 to widen the margin of safety, but automakers are under no obligation to save yoyos from themselves when they over-inflate their front tires and go hotrodding in their rear-engine swingaxle car. It's no different than idiots rolling their Ford Explorers because the smooth, car-like suspension makes them think they can weave in and out of heavy traffic like Mario Andretti.