Well, I'm going to make a guess and assume you are talking about our border with Mexico. Guess you don't know or care to know that Mexico follows the CDC guidelines for vaccinations. They give free vaccinations to all children.
So really what we're basically dealing with here is stupidity. Unfortunately for you there is no vaccination for that.
"This research shows exploitation of this vulnerability is feasible. Even though a universal exploit with no prior knowledge was not achieved, because it is necessary to build lookup tables per ROM, it has been proven practical to exploit in the wild."
Especially the part that says "a universal exploit with no prior knowledge was not achieved".
In other words to own it you must own it? Just kidding, excellent work .
This is a quote from another article. "William Gould, a professor emeritus of law at Stanford Law School, said the case demonstrates âoewhat a thin and sometimes artificial demarcation line there is between these two conceptsâ of employees and independent contractor. The determining factors are how much control the company has over the worker, and how much entrepreneurial opportunity the worker has, he said."
I'd have to say that Uber holds all the cards when the time comes to distribute the work. And that leads me to believe that it's just a matter of time before they are held liable for similar type accidents.
It's interesting to see that whoever issued the required permits allowing Yellow Cab to operate only required a million dollars in liability coverage. I wonder what kind of coverage those tour buses havr?
Since you continue to imply this is a matter for the faa, instead of reading the article and discovering the truth, I'll quote you a little something. "The property the helicopters use as a landing pad doesn't have a land-use permit for the activity, which means the flights violate Summit County code, Martinez and county attorneys said." Now for the life of me, I can't see where Sheriff Martinez is trying to usurp the faa's authority.
So while I may agree he has made a mistake. I can't see why we're talking about the faa. He stated if they LAND the chopper where he told them not to, they would be subject to arrest. He did NOT say they couldn't take off and land somewhere else.
IMO Uber enjoys the role of badboy too much. Controversy seems to be a staple of their diet.
Initially, I was totally in line with your thoughts. But as I worked my way down the list of books they peddle, I came to the sudden realization that it read like a copy of my wife's library. Further comment would serve no humane purpose.
I love being precise. The article stated precisely this, "deal with them in the US versus wherever else". Unless you interpret wherever else to mean everywhere but Europe, you are precisely wrong.
Typical prejudice. No better or worse than judging someone by the color of their skin. Ho, ho, ho. Redneck from Kentucky.
Well smartass, I'm from California and totally agree with his response. Yes, I own plenty of guns. I have a fishing boat and a couple of four wheel drives. And guess what? I've never voted for a Republican in my life and abhor most of the crap coming out of the NRA today. So open your eyes a little bit. I'd say the only person with a seriously misguided moral compass is the jerk who expects anyone to believe he wasn't flying over somebodies with the intention of spying on them.
How you got modded to funny instead of flamebait shows how widespread this type of prejudice is. Hey, I'm from Kentucky. I must be stupid. We're all just inbred hillbillies down here.Oh, except for the smart guy flying the drone.
You have a cite for this? I live in Northern California. I can say this is absolutely not true here.
Rural, as zoning defines it where I live, is no more than one residence per 20 acres. In some areas of steep terrain, the density is even less.
There's a guy who lives not very far away who gives handgun safety courses. On Saturdays, except during the dry season, the firing goes on for hours. I have fired hundreds of rounds at a time whenever I find myself owning a new weapon.
I think perhaps you're thinking of the act of dangerous discharging a firearm. Without further knowledge of the area where this incident happened, that would be impossible to
determine.
If this particular incident occurred in a rural area in only reinforces my opinion that the pilot was intent on spying on someone.
"The exploit leaves no trace it has been run on the local machine. If you use Firefox on Windows or Linux it would be prudent to change any passwords and keys found in the above-mentioned files if you use the associated programs. "
It's taken from the blog about the exploit and doesn't seem to be drawing much attention.
Is this the real person that divulged it? I ask because I can't quite figure out why we have this blog post https://blog.mozilla.org/secur... . It backs up the version you report.
However, if you go to this page https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/... you will find that they are giving credit to an entirely different person. A security researcher named Cody Crews.
It's interesting because everyone is giving Mozilla a big slap on the back for acting so fast, yet the fact of the matter is if MSFA 2015-78 is to be believed, we actually don't have the timeline between when it was first reported until it was patched. In this scenario, all we have is the timeline between the time it was found in the wild until it was patched. That would leave me asking this; Did Mozilla put off the patch until they discovered it was in the wild already?
These might be good as a supplement, but as a tool for a RIF?
I see commentators talking about the IR for SAR and law enforcement. What do you think you're going to get at this price? What you aren't going to get is what you typically see on TV. That is the images sent from the 5 million dollars a copy military drone. Or the images from the border patrol chopper using the latest military grade IR. NO. Hell no. You're at best going to get a mid grade camera.
Will this drone and pilot make the correct call when they are sent to an address where a smoke alarm is sounding? Let's say it's the middle of winter, the windows in the home are all closed. It's a newer home, well insulated. Lets say the couch is smoldering from a cigarette butt deposited on it by a person who has since dozed off and is now in imminent danger of dying from smoke inhalation. As well as the rest of his sleeping family. No flames, just smoke. Will the drone and pilot make the correct call. Because saving time is what the drone maker is selling. But I'm not sure I'm buying.
And then we have the police. OMG, burglary in progress. Send the drone before they escape. Hmm. How about we send the patrol car that we have assigned to the area in response to recent burglaries? You know. The one that is five blocks away. How much time did you say the drone would save? And just what is better? An image of the top of the burglar's head or a police car on the scene? Remember, we're not talking supplemental, we are talking drones as replacements. Again, I'm not buying.
Finally, I suggest a closer look at the words of the mayor and the sheriff. One says,"It's my understanding that there are no privacy concerns because this would be purely deployed for response to a 911 call," Reichert added." The other says, ""I think the public will need to get used to them first," Sheriff David Davis said. "They're not rockets shooting out of the sky. They're non-destructive, and they're a very useful tool."
I say those sound like code words that suggest that the citizens of Macon are about to see not just a reduction in their police and firefighting force, but also a reduction in the privacy, if not their constitutional rights.
I can't believe how many comments like this are floating around.
So you don't think the world wide recession had any role? Maybe do some fact checking before you blame the Greeks for much of the woes. It's pretty much accepted that without the recession, the Greeks wouldn't be in this crisis. Unless you think they are responsible for that too.
45 % of Greek pensioners live below the eu poverty line. Your asking about if there is really a humanitarian crisis? Well I would call it a crisis but what type I'll leave for others. I don't see you too worried about all the banks and euro leaders calling it a crisis so I guess you just have have a problem with applying to word to individuals instead of banks.
The research concluding it led to the LIA is wrong. This paper clearly dismisses solar activity as playing a role in the LIA. http://www.rtcc.org/2013/12/23...
Try this on for size. We have five or six Walton kids inherit 15 billion dollars apiece. I pick the babies of five or six federal employees and treat them to 15 billion dollars apiece and see what the benefits of that type of immense wealth has on their lives. I bet they equal or exceed the Walton kids by any measurement.
The fallacy of the rich being the best and the brightest is just another example of the success of their propaganda machine.
You seem pretty confident of yourself. How about innocent until proven guilty? Does that have a familiar ring to it ?
Their story has the same familiar ring to it as the stories told by many people in the US who have been forced or coerced into criminal activity by the American mob.
Maybe you missed the part about the raid on Adibelli's house? You know, the part where he got away because the authorities believe he was tipped off. Put your thinking cap on. Who do you think had the knowledge to tip him off? Well, unless the police publicly announced the raid my guess is it had to come from a cop. Or maybe you think it was a stroke of luck that the main guy just happened to escape before the raid?
You did read the part where the pair thought about going to the police but didn't because they were afraid that it would anger Adibelli and the others? Again, why would they fear that happening unless they assumed someone at the police department would inform on them? Narcotics money has a nasty habit of corrupting all walks of life.
The fact that they found multiple weapons during the same raid, including a silenced machine gun, would also lend credibility to the story about Adibelli flashing a gun at them.
And then there's the overall picture. Try googling 'Antwerp drug violence' for that picture. Others here seem to think the gangs there fire pastry at each other. Maybe that's why you don't accept that they were in danger at any point.
To make a blanket accusation that these guys didn't have anything to fear and just did what they did for the money defies reality. It is the equivalent of saying there's never been anyone that's been coerced into crime. I believe the truth is somewhat less clear. I'm not saying they're innocent, just that I believe they deserve their day in court.
"He has said in the past that the "Liberator " project was intended to highlight how technology can render laws and governments all but irrelevant."
So we have a self professed anarchist being ardently defended by some who feel his constitutional rights are being trampled. Can I see that definition of irony again?
How about this? How about poor little plastic gun dude simply offering to send his digital drawings to anyone he wants via email? Too simple? No , that wouldn't get him the repeated click bait articles he gets.That wouldn't make governments and laws irrelevant would it. No, that would simply allow him to distribute his drawings to every single person within the US. That would be bad, very, very bad. Right?
Instead let us boldly move towards a world without government and laws where every little freak can do whatever they want without 'fear' of government restrictions.
This idiot just makes it harder for gun owners like me to tell people that I like and own guns.
It turns out that there were ONLY two freaking wiretaps that were encrypted and as a result of encryption the feds couldn't decipher.
So for seemingly weeks we were told of the dangers that encryption posed to the authorities. They universally proclaimed encryption to be a direct threat to national security. I remember glancing at some of the stories and wondering just how big of a problem was this so-called threat. Well now we know. They want everyone to give up encryption because they couldn't decipher two messages. Wow. End of the world type stuff. Nothing like losing credibility. I know how I'll feel the next time the director of the FBI makes a plea for another reduction of our freedoms in the name of fighting terrorism.
Not sure why he is blaming Batteriser for the claims.
This comes straight from a blog post at phys.org.; "When we get a new battery it is 1.5 volts, when we use it in a device it goes down to 1.3 volts under load condition, at that point we consider it to be dead and throw it away," said Dr. Kiumars Parvin, professor of physics at San Jose State University.
It seems that the claim is from a physics professor, not Batteriser. Or maybe Batteriser started using making the claim based on the comments of a professor.
Moreover, the same blog post goes on to say; "Prof. Parvin said that in a lab test of the sleeve, "we confirmed that the Batteriser taps into the 80 percent of energy that is usually thrown away."
So we apparently have a professor of physics saying one thing and someone else disagreeing. I can't say which is right, but it's clear to me that the company is only stating what the professor has already stated. So if this person is debunking anything, it isn't the claims of a company but the claims of a professor.
I think it all hinges on the condition of batteries when they are discarded. Period. Not the condition they might be in if the person had attempted to extract every last bit of energy, but actual real world condition. It seems to me that I've read stuff concerning this before by researchers who have actually studied discarded batteries. But I couldn't find anything today.
Yeah well my wireless mouse doesn't suck every drop. Instead it will start randomly freezing,etc at well above 1.1v. Gigabyte M7700B.
I'd like to know what you call sucking every last drop.
And how about a cite for most modern electronics. My Dish remote certainly doesn't suck every last drop. The drivers in my flashlights have voltage cutoffs well above whatever you define as every last drop.
Furthermore, IMO, if you're using electronics that handle lower voltages well, you should be using rechargeables. The only time I don't is on the 'modern' electronics I own that don't like to see voltages less than1.2v or so.
Uh, they're referring to alkaline batteries. I'm pretty sure you would just recharge a NiCd. On the downside, most the NiCd's I've seen are AAA size and even if they are their voltage makes them unusable in things like wireless mice.
Am I missing something or do all the planned self driving cars still retain the ability to be driven by humans? Seems like if they can still be driven by humans, the insurance companies will still have a reason to exist and [possibly]thrive.
Well, well. The conservative argument is heard. Albeit, through five links to a website that is, guess what, the authors personal platform for his unique political rants. The links say one thing but the title on the web page is "Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog" Come on take credit where credit is due.
And, since this brand of conservatism is more interested in perceptions than facts., let's review some of those perceptions as they pertain to Greece's much maligned pension system . This article in the WSJ does a better job than I could; http://blogs.wsj.com/brussels/....
To proclaim that it's all Greece's fault for their economic woes and deny the effects of the worldwide recession and its impacts on Greece is the view of a simple one track mind.
It's more obvious than ever who were the winners and losers during and after the recession. Which side did the banks fall on? Which side of the fence you fell on was and continues to be as easy to read as your yearly income.
As the article in the WSJ says, 15% of Greece's seniors were at risk of poverty in 2013. The figure is rising. Yet your comments impart a message that this doesn't matter The only thing that matters is cutting government spending, which I believe you think results primarily from pensions . Poverty isn't enough, the pensions are still too high. Age doesn't matter either. I think maybe we should hear your ideas about cutting a pension to someone already dwelling in poverty? Retire at 78 at 50% of the poverty level? Is that enough to satisfy the bondholders?. Have you ever given a thought to the reality of living in poverty and knowing your too old to work? Yeah, don't frazzle a hair over it. No big deal.
My question is this. When does the day of reckoning ever arrive for the bankers? The ones who continued through thick and thin to draw their bonuses. And probably deserved to shoulder much of the blame for the recession. The ones who begged for and received more money for their privileged companies and execs than Greece could ever dream of. At freaking zero interest. Now that's a deal I'm pretty sure Greece would be interested in. A zero interest loan. What's the odds. So Mr Capitalism, when and where has any country received a bundle of cash like the bankers got?
Yeah I guess you can see which side I lean to. I'm pretty fuc*ing sick of the unregulated pro-corporation welfare, while we do some sort of means testing on every dollar spent on a poor person or a broke country like Greece.
You have quotes about "Peopleâ(TM)s sense of entitlement endures long after the entitlement has ceased to make sense." How about this for a quote. "How luck before the trickle down hogwash is dead and buried" A quick look at before and after tax Gini coefficient will tell you everything you need to know about current tax law. Yeah, I guess your system of disinformation is better than most. I mean, gee, here I thought we'd be anyplace but number one. It won't do you any good, but here's a link to a site that isn't your own; http://www.economist.com/blogs.... Yeah, I can punch in numbers too. Especially after I get one of the personal responsibility pitches from the right wing that insists on responsibility for everyone buy corporations and the wealth that own most of them.
For me I hope to God that Greece survives and thrives.
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Well, I'm going to make a guess and assume you are talking about our border with Mexico. Guess you don't know or care to know that Mexico follows the CDC guidelines for vaccinations. They give free vaccinations to all children.
So really what we're basically dealing with here is stupidity. Unfortunately for you there is no vaccination for that.
"This research shows exploitation of this vulnerability is feasible. Even though a universal exploit
with no prior knowledge was not achieved, because it is necessary to build lookup tables per
ROM, it has been proven practical to exploit in the wild."
Especially the part that says "a universal exploit
with no prior knowledge was not achieved".
In other words to own it you must own it? Just kidding, excellent work .
Hey this case might be a preview.
This is a quote from another article. "William Gould, a professor emeritus of law at Stanford Law School, said the case demonstrates âoewhat a thin and sometimes artificial demarcation line there is between these two conceptsâ of employees and independent contractor. The determining factors are how much control the company has over the worker, and how much entrepreneurial opportunity the worker has, he said."
I'd have to say that Uber holds all the cards when the time comes to distribute the work. And that leads me to believe that it's just a matter of time before they are held liable for similar type accidents.
It's interesting to see that whoever issued the required permits allowing Yellow Cab to operate only required a million dollars in liability coverage. I wonder what kind of coverage those tour buses havr?
Since you continue to imply this is a matter for the faa, instead of reading the article and discovering the truth, I'll quote you a little something. "The property the helicopters use as a landing pad doesn't have a land-use permit for the activity, which means the flights violate Summit County code, Martinez and county attorneys said." Now for the life of me, I can't see where Sheriff Martinez is trying to usurp the faa's authority.
So while I may agree he has made a mistake. I can't see why we're talking about the faa. He stated if they LAND the chopper where he told them not to, they would be subject to arrest. He did NOT say they couldn't take off and land somewhere else.
IMO Uber enjoys the role of badboy too much. Controversy seems to be a staple of their diet.
Initially, I was totally in line with your thoughts. But as I worked my way down the list of books they peddle, I came to the sudden realization that it read like a copy of my wife's library. Further comment would serve no humane purpose.
I love being precise. The article stated precisely this, "deal with them in the US versus wherever else". Unless you interpret wherever else to mean everywhere but Europe, you are precisely wrong.
Wow. And what are you trained to do? Troll?
Typical prejudice. No better or worse than judging someone by the color of their skin. Ho, ho, ho. Redneck from Kentucky.
Well smartass, I'm from California and totally agree with his response. Yes, I own plenty of guns. I have a fishing boat and a couple of four wheel drives. And guess what? I've never voted for a Republican in my life and abhor most of the crap coming out of the NRA today. So open your eyes a little bit. I'd say the only person with a seriously misguided moral compass is the jerk who expects anyone to believe he wasn't flying over somebodies with the intention of spying on them.
How you got modded to funny instead of flamebait shows how widespread this type of prejudice is. Hey, I'm from Kentucky. I must be stupid. We're all just inbred hillbillies down here.Oh, except for the smart guy flying the drone.
F*cking idiotic attitude.
You have a cite for this? I live in Northern California. I can say this is absolutely not true here.
Rural, as zoning defines it where I live, is no more than one residence per 20 acres. In some areas of steep terrain, the density is even less.
There's a guy who lives not very far away who gives handgun safety courses. On Saturdays, except during the dry season, the firing goes on for hours. I have fired hundreds of rounds at a time whenever I find myself owning a new weapon.
I think perhaps you're thinking of the act of dangerous discharging a firearm. Without further knowledge of the area where this incident happened, that would be impossible to
determine.
If this particular incident occurred in a rural area in only reinforces my opinion that the pilot was intent on spying on someone.
"The exploit leaves no trace it has been run on the local machine. If you use Firefox on Windows or Linux it would be prudent to change any passwords and keys found in the above-mentioned files if you use the associated programs. "
It's taken from the blog about the exploit and doesn't seem to be drawing much attention.
Is this the real person that divulged it? I ask because I can't quite figure out why we have this blog post https://blog.mozilla.org/secur... .
It backs up the version you report.
However, if you go to this page https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/... you will find that they are giving credit to an entirely different person. A security researcher named Cody Crews.
It's interesting because everyone is giving Mozilla a big slap on the back for acting so fast, yet the fact of the matter is if MSFA 2015-78 is to be believed, we actually don't have the timeline between when it was first reported until it was patched. In this scenario, all we have is the timeline between the time it was found in the wild until it was patched. That would leave me asking this; Did Mozilla put off the patch until they discovered it was in the wild already?
These might be good as a supplement, but as a tool for a RIF?
I see commentators talking about the IR for SAR and law enforcement. What do you think you're going to get at this price? What you aren't going to get is what you typically see on TV. That is the images sent from the 5 million dollars a copy military drone. Or the images from the border patrol chopper using the latest military grade IR. NO. Hell no. You're at best going to get a mid grade camera.
Will this drone and pilot make the correct call when they are sent to an address where a smoke alarm is sounding? Let's say it's the middle of winter, the windows in the home are all closed. It's a newer home, well insulated. Lets say the couch is smoldering from a cigarette butt deposited on it by a person who has since dozed off and is now in imminent danger of dying from smoke inhalation. As well as the rest of his sleeping family. No flames, just smoke. Will the drone and pilot make the correct call. Because saving time is what the drone maker is selling. But I'm not sure I'm buying.
And then we have the police. OMG, burglary in progress. Send the drone before they escape. Hmm. How about we send the patrol car that we have assigned to the area in response to recent burglaries? You know. The one that is five blocks away. How much time did you say the drone would save? And just what is better? An image of the top of the burglar's head or a police car on the scene? Remember, we're not talking supplemental, we are talking drones as replacements. Again, I'm not buying.
Finally, I suggest a closer look at the words of the mayor and the sheriff. One says,"It's my understanding that there are no privacy concerns because this would be purely deployed for response to a 911 call," Reichert added." The other says, ""I think the public will need to get used to them first," Sheriff David Davis said. "They're not rockets shooting out of the sky. They're non-destructive, and they're a very useful tool."
I say those sound like code words that suggest that the citizens of Macon are about to see not just a reduction in their police and firefighting force, but also a reduction in the privacy, if not their constitutional rights.
I can't believe how many comments like this are floating around.
So you don't think the world wide recession had any role? Maybe do some fact checking before you blame the Greeks for much of the woes. It's pretty much accepted that without the recession, the Greeks wouldn't be in this crisis. Unless you think they are responsible for that too.
Doubt it will have an impact on your thinking, but here's a couple of links for you. http://blogs.wsj.com/brussels/...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jo...
45 % of Greek pensioners live below the eu poverty line. Your asking about if there is really a humanitarian crisis? Well I would call it a crisis but what type I'll leave for others. I don't see you too worried about all the banks and euro leaders calling it a crisis so I guess you just have have
a problem with applying to word to individuals instead of banks.
My criminal tendencies date back to when I was a little tyke and grandma made me sing that song.
I coulda been a champion grandma.
The research concluding it led to the LIA is wrong. This paper clearly dismisses solar activity as playing a role in the LIA. http://www.rtcc.org/2013/12/23...
WTF are you babbling?
Try this on for size. We have five or six Walton kids inherit 15 billion dollars apiece. I pick the babies of five or six federal employees and treat them to 15 billion dollars apiece and see what the benefits of that type of immense wealth has on their lives. I bet they equal or exceed the Walton kids by any measurement.
The fallacy of the rich being the best and the brightest is just another example of the success of their propaganda machine.
You seem pretty confident of yourself. How about innocent until proven guilty? Does that have a familiar ring to it ?
Their story has the same familiar ring to it as the stories told by many people in the US who have been forced or coerced into criminal activity by the American mob.
Maybe you missed the part about the raid on Adibelli's house? You know, the part where he got away because the authorities believe he was tipped off. Put your thinking cap on. Who do you think had the knowledge to tip him off? Well, unless the police publicly announced the raid my guess is it had to come from a cop. Or maybe you think it was a stroke of luck that the main guy just happened to escape before the raid?
You did read the part where the pair thought about going to the police but didn't because they were afraid that it would anger Adibelli and the others? Again, why would they fear that happening unless they assumed someone at the police department would inform on them? Narcotics money has a nasty habit of corrupting all walks of life.
The fact that they found multiple weapons during the same raid, including a silenced machine gun, would also lend credibility to the story about Adibelli flashing a gun at them.
And then there's the overall picture. Try googling 'Antwerp drug violence' for that picture. Others here seem to think the gangs there fire pastry at each other. Maybe that's why you don't accept that they were in danger at any point.
To make a blanket accusation that these guys didn't have anything to fear and just did what they did for the money defies reality. It is the equivalent of saying there's never been anyone that's been coerced into crime. I believe the truth is somewhat less clear. I'm not saying they're innocent, just that I believe they deserve their day in court.
"He has said in the past that the "Liberator " project was intended to highlight how technology can render laws and governments all but irrelevant."
So we have a self professed anarchist being ardently defended by some who feel his constitutional rights are being trampled. Can I see that definition of irony again?
How about this? How about poor little plastic gun dude simply offering to send his digital drawings to anyone he wants via email? Too simple? No , that wouldn't get him the repeated click bait articles he gets.That wouldn't make governments and laws irrelevant would it. No, that would simply allow him to distribute his drawings to every single person within the US. That would be bad, very, very bad. Right?
Instead let us boldly move towards a world without government and laws where every little freak can do whatever they want without 'fear' of government restrictions.
This idiot just makes it harder for gun owners like me to tell people that I like and own guns.
Hmmm, this story http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... would make it seem otherwise.
It turns out that there were ONLY two freaking wiretaps that were encrypted and as a result of encryption the feds couldn't decipher.
So for seemingly weeks we were told of the dangers that encryption posed to the authorities. They universally proclaimed encryption to be a direct threat to national security. I remember glancing at some of the stories and wondering just how big of a problem was this so-called threat. Well now we know. They want everyone to give up encryption because they couldn't decipher two messages. Wow. End of the world type stuff. Nothing like losing credibility. I know how I'll feel the next time the director of the FBI makes a plea for another reduction of our freedoms in the name of fighting terrorism.
Not sure why he is blaming Batteriser for the claims.
This comes straight from a blog post at phys.org.; "When we get a new battery it is 1.5 volts, when we use it in a device it goes down to 1.3 volts under load condition, at that point we consider it to be dead and throw it away," said Dr. Kiumars Parvin, professor of physics at San Jose State University.
It seems that the claim is from a physics professor, not Batteriser. Or maybe Batteriser started using making the claim based on the comments of a professor.
Moreover, the same blog post goes on to say; "Prof. Parvin said that in a lab test of the sleeve, "we confirmed that the Batteriser taps into the 80 percent of energy that is usually thrown away."
So we apparently have a professor of physics saying one thing and someone else disagreeing. I can't say which is right, but it's clear to me that the company is only stating what the professor has already stated. So if this person is debunking anything, it isn't the claims of a company but the claims of a professor.
I think it all hinges on the condition of batteries when they are discarded. Period. Not the condition they might be in if the person had attempted to extract every last bit of energy, but actual real world condition. It seems to me that I've read stuff concerning this before by researchers who have actually studied discarded batteries. But I couldn't find anything today.
Yeah well my wireless mouse doesn't suck every drop. Instead it will start randomly freezing,etc at well above 1.1v. Gigabyte M7700B.
I'd like to know what you call sucking every last drop.
And how about a cite for most modern electronics. My Dish remote certainly doesn't suck every last drop. The drivers in my flashlights have voltage cutoffs well above whatever you define as every last drop.
Furthermore, IMO, if you're using electronics that handle lower voltages well, you should be using rechargeables. The only time I don't is on the 'modern' electronics I own that don't like to see voltages less than1.2v or so.
Uh, they're referring to alkaline batteries. I'm pretty sure you would just recharge a NiCd. On the downside, most the NiCd's I've seen are AAA size and even if they are their voltage makes them unusable in things like wireless mice.
Am I missing something or do all the planned self driving cars still retain the ability to be driven by humans? Seems like if they can still be driven by humans, the insurance companies will still have a reason to exist and [possibly]thrive.
Well, well. The conservative argument is heard. Albeit, through five links to a website that is, guess what, the authors personal platform for his unique political rants. The links say one thing but the title on the web page is "Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog" Come on take credit where credit is due.
And, since this brand of conservatism is more interested in perceptions than facts., let's review some of those perceptions as they pertain to Greece's much maligned pension system . This article in the WSJ does a better job than I could; http://blogs.wsj.com/brussels/....
To proclaim that it's all Greece's fault for their economic woes and deny the effects of the worldwide recession and its impacts on Greece is the view of a simple one track mind.
It's more obvious than ever who were the winners and losers during and after the recession. Which side did the banks fall on? Which side of the fence you fell on was and continues to be as easy to read as your yearly income.
As the article in the WSJ says, 15% of Greece's seniors were at risk of poverty in 2013. The figure is rising. Yet your comments impart a message that this doesn't matter The only thing that matters is cutting government spending, which I believe you think results primarily from pensions . Poverty isn't enough, the pensions are still too high. Age doesn't matter either. I think maybe we should hear your ideas about cutting a pension to someone already dwelling in poverty? Retire at 78 at 50% of the poverty level? Is that enough to satisfy the bondholders?. Have you ever given a thought to the reality of living in poverty and knowing your too old to work? Yeah, don't frazzle a hair over it. No big deal.
My question is this. When does the day of reckoning ever arrive for the bankers? The ones who continued through thick and thin to draw their bonuses. And probably deserved to shoulder much of the blame for the recession. The ones who begged for and received more money for their privileged companies and execs than Greece could ever dream of. At freaking zero interest. Now that's a deal I'm pretty sure Greece would be interested in. A zero interest loan. What's the odds. So Mr Capitalism, when and where has any country received a bundle of cash like the bankers got?
Yeah I guess you can see which side I lean to. I'm pretty fuc*ing sick of the unregulated pro-corporation welfare, while we do some sort of means testing on every dollar spent on a poor person or a broke country like Greece.
You have quotes about "Peopleâ(TM)s sense of entitlement endures long after the entitlement has ceased to make sense." How about this for a quote. "How luck before the trickle down hogwash is dead and buried" A quick look at before and after tax Gini coefficient will tell you everything you need to know about current tax law. Yeah, I guess your system of disinformation is better than most. I mean, gee, here I thought we'd be anyplace but number one. It won't do you any good, but here's a link to a site that isn't your own; http://www.economist.com/blogs.... Yeah, I can punch in numbers too. Especially after I get one of the personal responsibility pitches from the right wing that insists on responsibility for everyone buy corporations and the wealth that own most of them.
For me I hope to God that Greece survives and thrives.