Probably breaking an NDA here, but here's what's happening: Ford's autonomous vehicle division (AVD) has signed a 10-year exclusive partnership with the division at Microsoft that's developing the MyDrive system. That means all Ford vehicles for at least the first two product generations, probably more, will be running embedded Windows and using Microsoft cloud services for real-time video processing and sensor fusion (GPS, accelerometer, gyros, wheelspin, etc.)
The codename for all of this is an ominous-sounding "PodBay." You've been warned. Cover the driver camera when you talk about it, this bitch can read lips.
In fact, cover both cameras. There's one in the steering-wheel hub and one in the rearview mirror.
Duct tape...is there anything it can't do? (An autonomous Ford, powered by Microsoft? Hope the airbags work)
I never knew it at the time, but these cars were known for rusting at the top of the foot well that extended into the engine bay. The top lip would hold water, rust out, and then the floors would get wet. The water wouldn't drip, like you would expect, but it simply ran down the back of the carpeting. I'm guessing that you never knew that it was actually leaking at the top and not from underneath. Once the floor got wet, this would cause the foot wells to rust out.
My family had Fords in the 70s. They were also famous for rusting out at the bottom of the doors as well. The fix was to spray motorcycle chain lube into the drain holes and let it flow into the bottom door seam. Never had a problem after I learned that.
Betcha wish you still had that 65 'stang, huh? Best car Ford ever made...if you had the manual transmission. Their automatics were shit.
I buy Toyotas now. They don't rust. They don't die. They just keep running. Wife has a Jeep Wrangler. A hoot to drive, but the engineering is the best combined efforts of Fiat and Chrysler engineers...about as shit as it sounds.
Same here. She absolutely couldn't live without "House Hunters" and CNN.
Then I cut the cable. Told her to get Apple TV, Hulu and Netflix. Total of $30/mo, which is half what we were paying Comcast for cable TV.
Somehow, we have survived. I rigged up an antenna in the attic, so she can get the local news she insisted she had to have. I don't think she's watched it since I did it.
We did watch the first "debate".// Trump? Really?// If the FBI won't indict Hillary, she's guilty of nothing.
Just about a month ago, Verizon was reporting that my wife had used some ridiculous amount (can't remember exactly how much) of data on her phone. It turned out that both their website & their phone app were reporting MB as GB. It took them several days to fix it.
Verizon should realize that it's unlikely an individual is going to pay an almost $10k data bill.
So...why do they even allow you to run one up? By default, you should be shut off if you go over "n" times your limit (say your limit is 2G...after 6G, your data service is shut off). That way, Verizon gets their "nominal" overage charges, and nobody's all sue-happy. Why isn't this a thing? If you're some kind of commercial super user, you could sign away that protection, but for 99.44% of their users, it would eliminate this bad publicity.
Eh...you left out the part about her deciding, after one year at college, that the whole education thing was overrated and she should just go ahead and found Theranos. Despite not having any background in medicine, chemistry or biology.
I'm not sure locking the car will make any difference. My guess is they can hack into the electronic ignition they can hack into the electronic door locks as well.
Sure as heck won't make a bit of difference with my soft top JK Wrangler.
This is why a person holding the office of Secretary of State should always use an e-mail server protected at a classified level for any official business. You never know what seemingly trivial information sent or received could be a security risk if disclosed. Perhaps Hillary's favorite LOL cat videos pose a risk to some secret CAT Intelligence Agent...
You do realize, that the State server she didn't use, but could have, was not for classified information? So, if these same emails had gone over that server, the problem of "classified documents over and unclassified channel" would still exist. And nobody has yet explained how the recipient of a classified email could have prevented it from being sent.
Valarie Plame was not a "undercover" agent. And Dick Cheney didn't out her, it was a well known secret.
The ONLY people offended by her "outing" were people who hate Cheney. Hate him all you want, just don't do it for this, it is a non-issue. I also find it simply amazing that this is a huge deal to certain people, while at the same time, those same people are voting Clinton, who has done much much worse.
"a well known secret"?
The Intelligence Identities Protection Act provides criminal penalties for the intentional, unauthorized disclosure of information identifying a covert agent.
Regardless of whether or not you believe it is a "well known secret".
Now, what was that about it being a "non-issue"? And, please enlighten us as to what deliberate actions Clinton has actually taken that are "much, much worse".
I'm willing to pay more at Amazon or Newegg...ONLY because I'm expecting them to stand behind what I buy there. When they start disavowing responsibility for stuff sold through their site, there's really no motivation for me to buy through them.
A few years ago, I purchased what I thought were genuine Nikon batteries for use in my cameras.
Once they arrived, I took a very good look at them and determined they were, in fact, counterfeit. ( They had official looking hologram stickers and whatnot, but were not the real thing )
I returned them and ended up purchasing the batteries through a local dealer instead.
Now, while some will say " What's the big deal ? ", if a problem develops within those batteries and it ends up destroying your $$$$ camera, you can bet Nikon would tell me " Too Bad for you ". Otoh, if a genuine Nikon battery does the same thing, Nikon would probably be a bit more sympathetic since it is their official product that I'm buying.
Bottom line: If I cannot trust Amazon and / or the sellers who operate through Amazon to deliver genuine products, I will simply cease using Amazon to purchase any of it.
It's that simple.
Yes, and I'll bet you a donut and a cup of coffee that, if you open up those batteries which are remarkably similar on the outside, you'll find (if you're lucky) undersized calls of dubious quality. The batteries, if you dared to put them in your camera, which I wouldn't recommend, will probably last 1/2 to 2/3 the time a genuine battery would.
As Heinlein said, TANSTAAFL. Sure, there's a Nikon markup, but if you want 3rd party bateries, don't buy the ones that are trying to pass for Nikon. Buy some from a manufacturer like Wasabi (I've had good experience with them) or Digipower (likewise), who are trying to build a brand reputation.
Nixon couldn't successfully cover up a simple burglary involving a handful of people, but he was able to cover up a fake moon landing involving tens of thousands?
I have a copy of some of the Boston papers for July 21 and 22. The Watergate scandal is prominent. As is the Vietnam war.
I never thought of that argument - but then, I tend to joke with people who claim it was all done on a soundstage in Burbank. I was fifteen, and I have absolutely no doubt that I watched the moon landing, live (with a propagation delay, of course) on b&w TV. If we could successfully fake something like that, and keep the secret for 40+ years, we'd have no need of Donald Trump. Sadly...
Knockoff doesn't have to mean low quality. Often times the quality is almost as good as the premium name item.
Just saying.
True, but you should: 1. Be clearly informed that what you're getting is a knockoff, not the real thing 2. Be supported by Amazon when attempting to return substandard goods 3. Expect that Amazon would insist on the above
That's not happening. My increasing reluctance to deal with non-"Prime" vendors is due solely to Amazon's lackadaisical attitude towards what is being sold. As long as they get their cut, they appear not to care. And the product descriptions on some of this stuff are misleading and so brief as not to provide any significant information about what is being sold. I'm talking about lack of dimensions, poor product photos, that sort of thing.
They can start be dismantling the USA PATRIOT Act. A bad idea, always was. Tell the security services they need to play by the same rules everyone else does.
The Republicans have spent millions of tax dollars on investigating the Clintons for the last 30 years that have consistently failed to prove a damn thing.
Meanwhile, nobody seems to care about Cheney and the millions (billions?) he and Halliburton made of the Iraq war...at the cost of soldiers' lives. http://www.washingtonsblog.com...
Just trying to balance the claims here. Repubs are nowhere near innocent.
What would she need to own a lab for? She never did any research to begin with?
Holmes is 100% pure corporate CEO/Board-member. She has connections, extraordinary bullshitting abilities, and is tied in to god knows how many VC and Silicon valley based "ventures". She doesn't need a lab, or scientists, or engineers. She hires the people who hire them.
Holmes will be back with a bio-med big-data startup within 3 years. Bookmark this post.
She's an interesting example of how far you can get with money, influence and a positive approach, in the absence of any real understanding of the details of the business you're in.
I have an iPhone. I like it. Not love, but like. However, I will not carry a Lightning-to-headphone adapter, and I won't accept that the Apple proprietary Lightning plug is the "new standard" for headphones. I suspect many others will be with me. When this iPhone dies, I'll be looking for one with a 3.5mm headphone jack.
I am sick and tired of our elected representatives passing laws like this and the USA PATRIOT ACT, claiming they "make us safer".
It's easy to pass these, hard to repeal them. We as a country are going to be living with this erosion of our rights for years to come.
The USA Patriot Act had provisions that had "sunset provisions." That is, they were to expire after a certain number of years, variously. In subsequent years, Congress has renewed most of them when they were about to go out-of-force.
You are right about "easy to pass; hard to repeal," but that isn't even the case for the USA Patriot Act. It's worse.
Oh, yeah. The people who passed it initially were smart enough to put the sunset provision in. Regardless of whether I think they should have passed it initially, the sunset provision was a very intelligent move. REMOVING it...not so much. I sometimes wonder if there shouldn't be an intelligence test for our elected representatives. Or, at least, a basic Civics class, with emphasis on governments and how they can, with the best of intentions, become Bad.
CSB: A friend of my daughter's works in the Sgt-at-Arms office on Capitol Hill. She has to explain, repeatedly, to Senators and Representatives, why her office can't arrest the President (for alleged crimes against America, but really, because he's black and they don't like him). Seriously.
Oh, and didn't the FBI investigate the Orlando shooter TWICE, and found nothing to justify further interest? So, how would passing this amendment have prevented Orlando?
No the regulations were so severe in investigating people of interest that they were effectively dissuaded from further investigating even though the shooter was on the terrorist watchlist.And the FBI had a very strong suspicion that he was a ticking bomb So when you read between the lines you basically see that they discovered he was a protected class aka muslim and either looked the other way or were persuaded to look the other way because the optics wouldn't be good.. On top of that his wife is now being investigated as a link to this.
OK. There's something wrong when the FBI can't investigate someone Muslim, who wants to buy bulk ammo and body armor, is acting all squirrely, and has domestic violence issues. I'm all for political correctness, but this seems to be taking things a bit too far the wrong way. Someone in FBI management needs to step back and man up a bit.
ESPECIALLY...when (old white guy) I have to take my belt and shoes off every time I fly.
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Probably breaking an NDA here, but here's what's happening: Ford's autonomous vehicle division (AVD) has signed a 10-year exclusive partnership with the division at Microsoft that's developing the MyDrive system. That means all Ford vehicles for at least the first two product generations, probably more, will be running embedded Windows and using Microsoft cloud services for real-time video processing and sensor fusion (GPS, accelerometer, gyros, wheelspin, etc.)
The codename for all of this is an ominous-sounding "PodBay." You've been warned. Cover the driver camera when you talk about it, this bitch can read lips.
In fact, cover both cameras. There's one in the steering-wheel hub and one in the rearview mirror.
Duct tape...is there anything it can't do?
(An autonomous Ford, powered by Microsoft? Hope the airbags work)
Fix Or Repair Daily
Fast Overhaul, Rapid Depreciation
and, of course...
Found On Roadside, Dead.
I never knew it at the time, but these cars were known for rusting at the top of the foot well that extended into the engine bay. The top lip would hold water, rust out, and then the floors would get wet. The water wouldn't drip, like you would expect, but it simply ran down the back of the carpeting. I'm guessing that you never knew that it was actually leaking at the top and not from underneath. Once the floor got wet, this would cause the foot wells to rust out.
My family had Fords in the 70s. They were also famous for rusting out at the bottom of the doors as well. The fix was to spray motorcycle chain lube into the drain holes and let it flow into the bottom door seam. Never had a problem after I learned that.
Betcha wish you still had that 65 'stang, huh? Best car Ford ever made...if you had the manual transmission. Their automatics were shit.
I buy Toyotas now. They don't rust. They don't die. They just keep running.
Wife has a Jeep Wrangler. A hoot to drive, but the engineering is the best combined efforts of Fiat and Chrysler engineers...about as shit as it sounds.
Same here. She absolutely couldn't live without "House Hunters" and CNN.
Then I cut the cable. Told her to get Apple TV, Hulu and Netflix. Total of $30/mo, which
is half what we were paying Comcast for cable TV.
Somehow, we have survived. I rigged up an antenna in the attic, so she can get the local news she
insisted she had to have. I don't think she's watched it since I did it.
We did watch the first "debate". // Trump? Really? // If the FBI won't indict Hillary, she's guilty of nothing.
Just about a month ago, Verizon was reporting that my wife had used some ridiculous amount (can't remember exactly how much) of data on her phone. It turned out that both their website & their phone app were reporting MB as GB. It took them several days to fix it.
Verizon should realize that it's unlikely an individual is going to pay an almost $10k data bill.
So...why do they even allow you to run one up? By default, you should be shut off if you go over "n" times your limit (say your limit is 2G...after 6G, your data service is shut off). That way, Verizon gets their "nominal" overage charges, and nobody's all sue-happy. Why isn't this a thing? If you're some kind of commercial super user, you could sign away that protection, but for 99.44% of their users, it would eliminate this bad publicity.
It is. At least, the iDEN part is. That was the Motorola/Nextel proprietary trunked radio protocol.
After deciphering, they will find out that they were saying:
- I think they are on to us.
- Yes, perhaps it's time to search for another planet.
- Before we go, we should say goodbye
- And thank them for the fish
Eh...you left out the part about her deciding, after one year at college, that the whole education thing was overrated and she should just go ahead and found Theranos. Despite not having any background in medicine, chemistry or biology.
Too "smart" for her own good.
I wish someone could dig up some proof.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
I'm not sure locking the car will make any difference. My guess is they can hack into the electronic ignition they can hack into the electronic door locks as well.
Sure as heck won't make a bit of difference with my soft top JK Wrangler.
This is why a person holding the office of Secretary of State should always use an e-mail server protected at a classified level for any official business. You never know what seemingly trivial information sent or received could be a security risk if disclosed. Perhaps Hillary's favorite LOL cat videos pose a risk to some secret CAT Intelligence Agent...
You do realize, that the State server she didn't use, but could have, was not for classified information? So, if these same emails had gone over that server, the problem of "classified documents over and unclassified channel" would still exist. And nobody has yet explained how the recipient of a classified email could have prevented it from being sent.
You mean Hillary? Because Trump, despite all the mud being thrown this way, has done very little concrete evil in comparison.
Oh, I think Trump has done his share of evil. Let's put it this way: I wouldn't trust him with my money, much less my country:
http://www.theatlantic.com/pol...
Valarie Plame was not a "undercover" agent. And Dick Cheney didn't out her, it was a well known secret.
The ONLY people offended by her "outing" were people who hate Cheney. Hate him all you want, just don't do it for this, it is a non-issue. I also find it simply amazing that this is a huge deal to certain people, while at the same time, those same people are voting Clinton, who has done much much worse.
"a well known secret"?
The Intelligence Identities Protection Act provides criminal penalties for the intentional,
unauthorized disclosure of information identifying a covert agent.
Regardless of whether or not you believe it is a "well known secret".
Now, what was that about it being a "non-issue"? And, please enlighten us as to what deliberate actions Clinton has actually taken that are "much, much worse".
I'm willing to pay more at Amazon or Newegg...ONLY because I'm expecting them to stand behind what I buy there. When they start disavowing responsibility for stuff sold through their site, there's really no motivation for me to buy through them.
A few years ago, I purchased what I thought were genuine Nikon batteries for use in my cameras.
Once they arrived, I took a very good look at them and determined they were, in fact, counterfeit.
( They had official looking hologram stickers and whatnot, but were not the real thing )
I returned them and ended up purchasing the batteries through a local dealer instead.
Now, while some will say " What's the big deal ? ", if a problem develops within those batteries and
it ends up destroying your $$$$ camera, you can bet Nikon would tell me " Too Bad for you ". Otoh,
if a genuine Nikon battery does the same thing, Nikon would probably be a bit more sympathetic since
it is their official product that I'm buying.
Bottom line: If I cannot trust Amazon and / or the sellers who operate through Amazon to deliver genuine
products, I will simply cease using Amazon to purchase any of it.
It's that simple.
Yes, and I'll bet you a donut and a cup of coffee that, if you open up those batteries which are remarkably similar on the outside, you'll find (if you're lucky) undersized calls of dubious quality. The batteries, if you dared to put them in your camera, which I wouldn't recommend, will probably last 1/2 to 2/3 the time a genuine battery would.
As Heinlein said, TANSTAAFL. Sure, there's a Nikon markup, but if you want 3rd party bateries, don't buy the ones that are trying to pass for Nikon. Buy some from a manufacturer like Wasabi (I've had good experience with them) or Digipower (likewise), who are trying to build a brand reputation.
The russians were in on it. The US President at the time was a Russian mole.
Thanks for making my day a bit brighter.
Nixon, a commie mole. That's one for the books :-)
Nixon couldn't successfully cover up a simple burglary involving a handful of people, but he was able to cover up a fake moon landing involving tens of thousands?
I have a copy of some of the Boston papers for July 21 and 22. The Watergate scandal is prominent. As is the Vietnam war.
I never thought of that argument - but then, I tend to joke with people who claim it was all done on a soundstage in Burbank. I was fifteen, and I have absolutely no doubt that I watched the moon landing, live (with a propagation delay, of course) on b&w TV. If we could successfully fake something like that, and keep the secret for 40+ years, we'd have no need of Donald Trump. Sadly...
Knockoff doesn't have to mean low quality. Often times the quality is almost as good as the premium name item.
Just saying.
True, but you should:
1. Be clearly informed that what you're getting is a knockoff, not the real thing
2. Be supported by Amazon when attempting to return substandard goods
3. Expect that Amazon would insist on the above
That's not happening. My increasing reluctance to deal with non-"Prime" vendors is due solely to Amazon's lackadaisical attitude towards what is being sold. As long as they get their cut, they appear not to care. And the product descriptions on some of this stuff are misleading and so brief as not to provide any significant information about what is being sold. I'm talking about lack of dimensions, poor product photos, that sort of thing.
Amazon's on track to become as sketchy as Ebay.
They can start be dismantling the USA PATRIOT Act. A bad idea, always was. Tell the security services they need to play by the same rules everyone else does.
The Republicans have spent millions of tax dollars on investigating the Clintons for the last 30 years that have consistently failed to prove a damn thing.
Meanwhile, nobody seems to care about Cheney and the millions (billions?) he and Halliburton made of the Iraq war...at the cost of soldiers' lives.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com...
Just trying to balance the claims here. Repubs are nowhere near innocent.
What would she need to own a lab for? She never did any research to begin with?
Holmes is 100% pure corporate CEO/Board-member. She has connections, extraordinary bullshitting abilities, and is tied in to god knows how many VC and Silicon valley based "ventures". She doesn't need a lab, or scientists, or engineers. She hires the people who hire them.
Holmes will be back with a bio-med big-data startup within 3 years. Bookmark this post.
She's an interesting example of how far you can get with money, influence and a positive approach, in the absence of any real understanding of the details of the business you're in.
Maybe she can use the time off to finish college.
I've noticed that Texas Man has been making a strong move to overtake Florida Man, as this story of courage and determination demonstrates:
http://www.unilad.co.uk/video/...
The man in question, Tommie Woodward was known in Texas for his taste in clothes.
http://cdn.unilad.co.uk/wp-con...
Optimistic, and self confident...you gotta give him that.
I have an iPhone. I like it. Not love, but like.
However, I will not carry a Lightning-to-headphone adapter, and I won't accept that the Apple proprietary Lightning plug is the "new standard" for headphones. I suspect many others will be with me.
When this iPhone dies, I'll be looking for one with a 3.5mm headphone jack.
I am sick and tired of our elected representatives passing laws like this and the USA PATRIOT ACT, claiming they "make us safer".
It's easy to pass these, hard to repeal them. We as a country are going to be living with this erosion of our rights for years to come.
The USA Patriot Act had provisions that had "sunset provisions." That is, they were to expire after a certain number of years, variously. In subsequent years, Congress has renewed most of them when they were about to go out-of-force.
You are right about "easy to pass; hard to repeal," but that isn't even the case for the USA Patriot Act. It's worse.
Oh, yeah. The people who passed it initially were smart enough to put the sunset provision in. Regardless of whether I think they should have passed it initially, the sunset provision was a very intelligent move. REMOVING it...not so much. I sometimes wonder if there shouldn't be an intelligence test for our elected representatives. Or, at least, a basic Civics class, with emphasis on governments and how they can, with the best of intentions, become Bad.
CSB: A friend of my daughter's works in the Sgt-at-Arms office on Capitol Hill. She has to explain, repeatedly, to Senators and Representatives, why her office can't arrest the President (for alleged crimes against America, but really, because he's black and they don't like him). Seriously.
Oh, and didn't the FBI investigate the Orlando shooter TWICE, and found nothing to justify further interest? So, how would passing this amendment have prevented Orlando?
No the regulations were so severe in investigating people of interest that they were effectively dissuaded from further investigating even though the shooter was on the terrorist watchlist. And the FBI had a very strong suspicion that he was a ticking bomb So when you read between the lines you basically see that they discovered he was a protected class aka muslim and either looked the other way or were persuaded to look the other way because the optics wouldn't be good.. On top of that his wife is now being investigated as a link to this.
OK. There's something wrong when the FBI can't investigate someone Muslim, who wants to buy bulk ammo and body armor, is acting all squirrely, and has domestic violence issues. I'm all for political correctness, but this seems to be taking things a bit too far the wrong way. Someone in FBI management needs to step back and man up a bit.
ESPECIALLY...when (old white guy) I have to take my belt and shoes off every time I fly.