My neighbor moved and was selling his house and left his car there in the driveway. A couple weeks later a tow truck showed up and towed his car away...but not before I got a couple good pictures of the drive and the license plate...and another neighbor came out to talk to the driver.
Unless you're only steeling cars that are parked illegally, you're going to get caught pretty quick cause people hate towing companies and are going to take note if they don't see a good reason.
If I'm leaving my car in a airport lot for a while, I'll just pull out the ECU fuse (or some other necessary fuse, but that still lets the car turn over) and replace it with a bad one. Bet that would stop most criminals.
Having done some good looking-into for this...a lot of these comments are irrelevant.
Commercialism: The Internet(1) is plenty good for this. Internet2 is for research. In fact "Internet2" isn't a network, but a group of people, much like "open source" isn't a company but a movement. Abilene is the network the people who are Internet2 memebers connect to, and it's pretty much only research traffic. You can connect to the internet (commodity traffic) over your I2/Abiline link, but that is not routed over the Abiline backbone you have to pay for an ISP for that as well.
Controlled? Not really. Once you are in, you can do just about whatever you want with other orgs that are in as well.
Get this in your room? Not likely, unless you can get through the application process (stating that you are a research university, nonprofit research group, or a corporation doing research with at least $25,000 to spare for dues. You then have to buy an OC3 to a local "gigapop", who will connect you (and then probably pay more if you want to use any of this bandwith to get to the Internet(1)). I would skipp all the paperwork and extra fees and just get the OC3 if I were condiering this. I mean $2000/month is better than $4000/month and a lot of red tape.
What they are getting in return? They are doing research in middleware, networks, video, you name it...that is on the leading edge. Enough research in these areas and you're going to come up with some pretty neat ideas: product ideas, service ideas, etc.
It seems many/.ers have failed to remember that the Onion is a satirical newspaper. This is, like all their other interviews, probably made-up.
Seems they did a pretty good job.
I do rememer reading a funny short on how MSFT plans to patent 1's and 0's, which all mathematics derive from, hence patenting all physical laws like Gravity, etc. Imagine paying MSFT to stay on the earth (sounds a lot like consumer PCs to me).
I believe Vitesse Semiconductor company makes GaAs chips, almost exclusively...and pretty cool chips at that. OC-192 fabric and hopfully the full chipset to go along with it.
They do pretty well. I've been to their fab in Colorado Springs...pretty neat. But i really wouldn't want to work there...too unsettling to be working in a building that is storing thousands of gallons of acid.
"So you sue the individual you lent your car to. "
No, you go to the ticket office and show them the picture, say "this isn't me" and leave. But I shouldn't have to prove my innocence like that.
"Your speeding vehicle is a serious threat to anybody else on the road. People die from being hit by cars. Those are facts."
The latter is true, but my speeding vehicle is no threat. It is not speed that kills, but people that can't handle their cars, people not paying attention,...stupid driving. My Speeding is SAFE, much safer than most people on the street doing the limit. I pay attention and avoid bad situations...they just mindlessly point their cars. It's like saying that guns kill people, they dont. It's the retards behind the guns that kill. It's not the speed of the car (the power of the weapon) but the user and his/her lack of ability to operate.
I would agree that most radar detectors are useless against the photo cameras. I too had a cheapie until i got nabbed by the photo radar. Then I tossed my $100 POS and got the V1. Now I see them (and every other cop with their radar on) coming from a mile away.
I'm just glad I don't live in MD or VA (near washington DC) where they can outlaw radar detectors for "national security" reasons. The states, thankfully, don't have this right because radar detectors are regulated by the FCC and therefore under federal jurisdiction. Oh, you can't use them on military installations either.
They used to do this to everyone on the IN toll roads, but people got pissed and got this stopped. We just need to get pissed here and get the photo-tickts stopped. I don't want our society to end up like that in "Judge Dred" (horrible movie, but good example).
You think there is no real benefit from speeding? Think about making it to CO from the middle of IN in 13 hours, including an hour breakfast stop (so 12 hours driving time). My speeding allowed kept me from sitting on my ass an extra 4 hours in the car. (Mapquest says "21h28m, but that's probably 18 hours for most people).
I would agree, however, that speeding on busy streets, or during rush hour does nothing but waste gas. It's also dangerous. But there are times when it is safe, and cars which make it safer. I don't think SUVs should be allowed to go over 40, but if you're in a real sports car (ferrari, mclaren F1, etc) and you know how to drive, you really can do 150+ safely.
Yah, they do that here in Fort Collins, CO (USA) as well...but I have heard of these OCR cameras. The good thing about the cameras here now is that I can pick them up with my radar detector (http://www.valentineone.com) and slow down. These other ones would have unlimited capability to slow me down...there could be an entire network of them. (BTW...I hit 145 the other week...on a 35MPH mountain road...now that's fun)
Next thing you know we'll have OCR cameras reading out license plates and giving us tickets for having an average speed over the speed limit. It's happened in other countries. There need to be serious laws passed against cameras used like this.
No photo radar! No red-light cameras! No face-recognition cameras! No illegal keystroke wiretaps!
I want to see this with some Plasma screens. Take the packaging off (all the plastic crap to make it look nice) and i bet you could get them close enought to eachother to be useful.
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My neighbor moved and was selling his house and left his car there in the driveway. A couple weeks later a tow truck showed up and towed his car away...but not before I got a couple good pictures of the drive and the license plate...and another neighbor came out to talk to the driver.
Unless you're only steeling cars that are parked illegally, you're going to get caught pretty quick cause people hate towing companies and are going to take note if they don't see a good reason.
If I'm leaving my car in a airport lot for a while, I'll just pull out the ECU fuse (or some other necessary fuse, but that still lets the car turn over) and replace it with a bad one. Bet that would stop most criminals.
- waxy
Having done some good looking-into for this...a lot of these comments are irrelevant.
Commercialism: The Internet(1) is plenty good for this. Internet2 is for research. In fact "Internet2" isn't a network, but a group of people, much like "open source" isn't a company but a movement. Abilene is the network the people who are Internet2 memebers connect to, and it's pretty much only research traffic. You can connect to the internet (commodity traffic) over your I2/Abiline link, but that is not routed over the Abiline backbone you have to pay for an ISP for that as well.
Controlled? Not really. Once you are in, you can do just about whatever you want with other orgs that are in as well.
Get this in your room? Not likely, unless you can get through the application process (stating that you are a research university, nonprofit research group, or a corporation doing research with at least $25,000 to spare for dues. You then have to buy an OC3 to a local "gigapop", who will connect you (and then probably pay more if you want to use any of this bandwith to get to the Internet(1)). I would skipp all the paperwork and extra fees and just get the OC3 if I were condiering this. I mean $2000/month is better than $4000/month and a lot of red tape.
What they are getting in return? They are doing research in middleware, networks, video, you name it...that is on the leading edge. Enough research in these areas and you're going to come up with some pretty neat ideas: product ideas, service ideas, etc.
It seems many /.ers have failed to remember that the Onion is a satirical newspaper. This is, like all their other interviews, probably made-up.
Seems they did a pretty good job.
I do rememer reading a funny short on how MSFT plans to patent 1's and 0's, which all mathematics derive from, hence patenting all physical laws like Gravity, etc. Imagine paying MSFT to stay on the earth (sounds a lot like consumer PCs to me).
I believe Vitesse Semiconductor company makes GaAs chips, almost exclusively...and pretty cool chips at that. OC-192 fabric and hopfully the full chipset to go along with it.
They do pretty well. I've been to their fab in Colorado Springs...pretty neat. But i really wouldn't want to work there...too unsettling to be working in a building that is storing thousands of gallons of acid.
- and all the workers say, "I'm melting"
"So you sue the individual you lent your car to. "
...stupid driving. My Speeding is SAFE, much safer than most people on the street doing the limit. I pay attention and avoid bad situations...they just mindlessly point their cars. It's like saying that guns kill people, they dont. It's the retards behind the guns that kill. It's not the speed of the car (the power of the weapon) but the user and his/her lack of ability to operate.
No, you go to the ticket office and show them the picture, say "this isn't me" and leave. But I shouldn't have to prove my innocence like that.
"Your speeding vehicle is a serious threat to anybody else on the road. People die from being hit by cars. Those are facts."
The latter is true, but my speeding vehicle is no threat. It is not speed that kills, but people that can't handle their cars, people not paying attention,
I would agree that most radar detectors are useless against the photo cameras. I too had a cheapie until i got nabbed by the photo radar. Then I tossed my $100 POS and got the V1. Now I see them (and every other cop with their radar on) coming from a mile away. I'm just glad I don't live in MD or VA (near washington DC) where they can outlaw radar detectors for "national security" reasons. The states, thankfully, don't have this right because radar detectors are regulated by the FCC and therefore under federal jurisdiction. Oh, you can't use them on military installations either.
They used to do this to everyone on the IN toll roads, but people got pissed and got this stopped. We just need to get pissed here and get the photo-tickts stopped. I don't want our society to end up like that in "Judge Dred" (horrible movie, but good example).
You think there is no real benefit from speeding? Think about making it to CO from the middle of IN in 13 hours, including an hour breakfast stop (so 12 hours driving time). My speeding allowed kept me from sitting on my ass an extra 4 hours in the car. (Mapquest says "21h28m, but that's probably 18 hours for most people).
I would agree, however, that speeding on busy streets, or during rush hour does nothing but waste gas. It's also dangerous. But there are times when it is safe, and cars which make it safer. I don't think SUVs should be allowed to go over 40, but if you're in a real sports car (ferrari, mclaren F1, etc) and you know how to drive, you really can do 150+ safely.
Yah, they do that here in Fort Collins, CO (USA) as well...but I have heard of these OCR cameras. The good thing about the cameras here now is that I can pick them up with my radar detector (http://www.valentineone.com) and slow down. These other ones would have unlimited capability to slow me down...there could be an entire network of them. (BTW...I hit 145 the other week...on a 35MPH mountain road...now that's fun)
Next thing you know we'll have OCR cameras reading out license plates and giving us tickets for having an average speed over the speed limit. It's happened in other countries. There need to be serious laws passed against cameras used like this. No photo radar! No red-light cameras! No face-recognition cameras! No illegal keystroke wiretaps!
I want to see this with some Plasma screens. Take the packaging off (all the plastic crap to make it look nice) and i bet you could get them close enought to eachother to be useful. - 2nd post to Slashdot in my life