Add to the fact that most in-vehicle theft is performed with a broken window, it's kinda stupid. I'd prefer to leave my doors unlocked so I don't have to shell out $300 for new glass - and a broken window is a much more visible sign of B&E than someone fiddling with a coat hanger or gaining access keyless.
I believe the key actually has to be present only for the initial start of the car, though I might be mistaken. That would be how I'd design it, at any rate. I see no point in the key needing to be present while the vehicle is in operation.
On a whole, keyless start is an irritating and stupid feature, I think. For those of us who work out of our vehicles, it's irritating to have to lock/unlock the vehicle frequently just to make sure it's not jacked.
'dd' (or rawdiskwrite, or whatever the Windows equivalent is) is your friend, as is virtualization. There is very, very slim rationale behind keeping these systems physical. Even SCO virtualizes OK in most scenarios.
Since when was that equivalent to "drug-dealing, cop-shooting criminal underclass"?
That phrase/song was written by an elitist Marxist, and it was satirical. He was not fond of America soaking up Europe's underclass due to the above mentioned lack of equivalency.
I've done this. The easy answer to your problem is: virtualization.
Whether you're virtualizing DOS or Win9x, you can use modern USB devices as "real" serial devices on the guests. It works slightly differently with the different platforms (VirtualBox and VMWare are the best at this with VB being the best, in my experience, with XenServer failing and being difficult more often than not). With VirtualBox at least, you can pass a raw port to the guests.
You MAY run into problems with port timing, however. Finding USB serial adapters that have good timing can be a bit difficult, and I don't have good advice on this. However, it still opens up your options and removes the dependency of old hardware.
If you must, you can also buy multi-port serial cards (you can get a cheap 2-port on NewEgg) and pass those directly, or you could use a serial port router/switch if you have enough devices to justify it.
No. Putting electronics in a firearm is like launching a car with an air catapult. It won't last long... and there's an easier way to get from A to B: disable the catapult.
Biometrics - or really, much of any electronics - on/in a firearm is laughable at best.
* There is absolutely no market for it. Governments and police won't want them (one more thing to break) and there's a negative market for such things in the firearms industry. * Biometrics are not yet consistently reliable. They are environmentally sensitive - temperature, moisture, etc. - and easily broken or bypassed. * Anything with circuitry on a board does not belong on a firearm due to how a firearm works. Car analogy: Putting electronics in a firearm is like launching a car with an air catapult. It won't be terribly reliable as a car after a while. * It will be easily bypassed on stolen guns, defeating the single biggest purpose it has: keeping guns out of criminals' hands.
But let's address the most non-scientific question here: where is the actual market for these guns? Surely a business looking for crowd sourced funding has more than just "look, here's a perfect world" funding information, yes?
Well, to be fair, MSC snap-ins are awesome; they're arguably the best high-level way to manage systems, and you can do it remotely.
And yet... MS is trying to do away with all that, eg. with Exchange, by making previously MSC features now only accessible through PowerShell... brave moves.
The issue with Microsoft is that they went about this wrong. They forced significant changes upon users where changes were not really warranted. This is particularly a big issue in companies where users are accustomed to working on the same style of desktop etc.
Precisely. Even still, there's resistance in some organizations to migrating to W7 from XP due to training costs and the cyclic troubleshooting that usually hits hard and fast after a migration (they know all the common issues with XP, as an organization; not so W7).
For corporate, there are no advantages to W7, seemingly. Even fewer for developers (who have to port their applications and deal with new crap for no apparent reason).
Here's what they should have done:
* Implement proper package management for Windows, with repositories, as they've been talking about for years (on and off), something that's highly desired by many IT professionals * Improved atomic change control for packages/updates * The ability to control the platform for support (we were more or less there with 7; 8 is a huge step back in this regard)
The best thing about BYOD is getting drunk dialed by your boss at 2am asking for him to come pick him up... and no, I'm not even kidding. That would be a highlight.
I've never personally gotten a referral bonus, but I've been the reason someone else was supposed to get a bonus several times.
In my experience, the bonuses have not been that large - $500 has been the 'standard' new-hire bonus. Twice it was with smaller companies, once with an international corp. The international corp paid out but the smaller companies, lacking HR processes, shorted or delayed the payouts.
I've been shorted my "stay 6 months and get a bonus/raise" as well, even when it's been in writing. Be sure that shit is iron-clad - and of course, it's all meaningless in a right to work state.
While I do not disagree, in principle, with the conclusion in OP, you can hardly trust the conclusion of something the BSA publishes - which is less of a study than it is an argument for software licensing made up after the conclusion was reached to support their point.
I'm 31 years old. I recently bought a military surplus vehicle which was designed before I was born and manufactured before you were born. It is still in limited use in some National Guard applications but, for the most part, it has been decommissioned.
All of the manuals and, to large degree, parts and construction are fully known. The same can be said for the humvee, except it hasn't been decomissioned and is still in broad use.
Granted, the Chinese have blueprints for the humvee, and have been making their own for about 15 years now. But there is still an opsec danger to having information on your war machines publicly and easily available to the enemy. In the case of the humvee (or my cucv), there's a danger due to IEDs and other munitions being able to be specifically constructed to disable or destroy the up-armored variants.
With a war plane or missile, which is largely successful in today's world on the basis of secrecy, this is all the more significant. It doesn't matter that it's "old"; a country's ability to keep the specifics of its operational capabilities (flight time, flight speed, total engineered payload capacity, etc.) is largely the basis for its ability to wage warfare. If you own the secrets to your enemy's weapons of war, you diminish the weapons' usefulness. For instance: if the enemy knows a specific plane has a structural problem at a specific G, you design a missile which hits that G or greater, for a prolonged period. (Bad example, but you get my point, I hope.)
When you see 1 1/4 cups, or 55 mph, or 3 1/2 miles to the exit - there's a good chance that the measurement is inexact or unnecessary. Nobody actually paced out exactly 18,480 feet and placed the "3.5 mile" sign at exactly that spot. They placed the sign and filled in the best available number in the most convenient unit.
As someone who's done roadway surveying... yeah, um, that's a horribly ignorant statement. Maybe you live in CA or something, where that approach seems acceptable, but throughout most of the US, there is consistency in things like: distance between a stop sign and an intersection, roadway mile markers (some places it's a quarter mile, some places it's a mile, etc.). Believe it or not, a roadway where the speed limit is 55mph WILL be surveyed its full distance to within an inch of accuracy for elevation, the roadway bedding, incline, and curve - there's a lot of math that goes into it, and it's all thoroughly planned out.
Don't get me wrong: SI units are certainly preferable and superior in many cases, but in many others, it's completely asinine.
I am NOT going to have 0.000236588 cubic meters of coffee or sugar; I'm going to have a cup. (I may even have a quarter liter of coffee over that, but that isn't SI). I'm going to go walk for a block or so, not 80 meters. I AM going to do precise measurements for wood furniture with mm and cm, not inches. I am NOT going to use those same mm and cm (or dm or m) measurements when I decide to re-frame the living room wall in house. (I wouldn't re-wire half my server room for DC current, either.)
There are many different measurement systems, many of which make sense in some situations; in others, they do not. Roadways in the US is one location where SI is absolutely retarded. (Proposing km instead of miles is, at this point, about as retarded as making the argument against miles or feet as a unit of measurement with "but not everyone's foot is the same size!" Oh, really.)
* Maps are usually still in miles * Everything around those highways is measured in miles (or acres...) * Road exits, sections, etc. are measured in miles (and can be predicted by such), usually in a grid system * It would add yet another distraction to the roadways, particularly in busy areas where there are lots of signs as it is. * You gain nothing.
In terms of relevancy, we might as well be using cubits or furlongs...
Creationists never fold their cards, no matter how many times their claims are refuted.
Hello, microevolution?
In contrast, you've got irritating irregularities in taught evolutionary science which just refuse to die (eg. Lucy) and pesky irregularities in the fossil record which contradict common/popular evolutionary dogma, and are thus ignored or explained away...
Pfft. The cockroaches in Japan can grow to be the size of an eclair. You need a shotgun to kill them - which is unfortunate, since you can't have shotguns in Japan...
True story... my Uncle couldn't get rid of the roaches in his apartment in Tokyo, so he camped them with a pump pellet gun - which was illegal, of course. He grew up shooting squirrels and stuff in NY with such a pellet rifle, and the roaches require more pumps and more precise body location shooting than the rodents...
Yeah, it had nothing to do with the fact that Perl was one of the languages which more heavily influenced PS...
Perl is easy to write and, if written by someone who is lazy, difficult to read (due to how easy it is to write terse, functional code in perl). PS doesn't have this benefit; it's long-typed as well as cryptic/difficult to read.
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Add to the fact that most in-vehicle theft is performed with a broken window, it's kinda stupid. I'd prefer to leave my doors unlocked so I don't have to shell out $300 for new glass - and a broken window is a much more visible sign of B&E than someone fiddling with a coat hanger or gaining access keyless.
I believe the key actually has to be present only for the initial start of the car, though I might be mistaken. That would be how I'd design it, at any rate. I see no point in the key needing to be present while the vehicle is in operation.
On a whole, keyless start is an irritating and stupid feature, I think. For those of us who work out of our vehicles, it's irritating to have to lock/unlock the vehicle frequently just to make sure it's not jacked.
'dd' (or rawdiskwrite, or whatever the Windows equivalent is) is your friend, as is virtualization. There is very, very slim rationale behind keeping these systems physical. Even SCO virtualizes OK in most scenarios.
Since when was that equivalent to "drug-dealing, cop-shooting criminal underclass"?
That phrase/song was written by an elitist Marxist, and it was satirical. He was not fond of America soaking up Europe's underclass due to the above mentioned lack of equivalency.
I've done this. The easy answer to your problem is: virtualization.
Whether you're virtualizing DOS or Win9x, you can use modern USB devices as "real" serial devices on the guests. It works slightly differently with the different platforms (VirtualBox and VMWare are the best at this with VB being the best, in my experience, with XenServer failing and being difficult more often than not). With VirtualBox at least, you can pass a raw port to the guests.
You MAY run into problems with port timing, however. Finding USB serial adapters that have good timing can be a bit difficult, and I don't have good advice on this. However, it still opens up your options and removes the dependency of old hardware.
If you must, you can also buy multi-port serial cards (you can get a cheap 2-port on NewEgg) and pass those directly, or you could use a serial port router/switch if you have enough devices to justify it.
Depending on who it is, I typically don't mind having them sit in my lap, though.
No. Putting electronics in a firearm is like launching a car with an air catapult. It won't last long... and there's an easier way to get from A to B: disable the catapult.
Biometrics - or really, much of any electronics - on/in a firearm is laughable at best.
* There is absolutely no market for it. Governments and police won't want them (one more thing to break) and there's a negative market for such things in the firearms industry.
* Biometrics are not yet consistently reliable. They are environmentally sensitive - temperature, moisture, etc. - and easily broken or bypassed.
* Anything with circuitry on a board does not belong on a firearm due to how a firearm works. Car analogy: Putting electronics in a firearm is like launching a car with an air catapult. It won't be terribly reliable as a car after a while.
* It will be easily bypassed on stolen guns, defeating the single biggest purpose it has: keeping guns out of criminals' hands.
But let's address the most non-scientific question here: where is the actual market for these guns? Surely a business looking for crowd sourced funding has more than just "look, here's a perfect world" funding information, yes?
Well, to be fair, MSC snap-ins are awesome; they're arguably the best high-level way to manage systems, and you can do it remotely.
And yet... MS is trying to do away with all that, eg. with Exchange, by making previously MSC features now only accessible through PowerShell... brave moves.
The issue with Microsoft is that they went about this wrong. They forced significant changes upon users where changes were not really warranted. This is particularly a big issue in companies where users are accustomed to working on the same style of desktop etc.
Precisely. Even still, there's resistance in some organizations to migrating to W7 from XP due to training costs and the cyclic troubleshooting that usually hits hard and fast after a migration (they know all the common issues with XP, as an organization; not so W7).
For corporate, there are no advantages to W7, seemingly. Even fewer for developers (who have to port their applications and deal with new crap for no apparent reason).
Here's what they should have done:
* Implement proper package management for Windows, with repositories, as they've been talking about for years (on and off), something that's highly desired by many IT professionals
* Improved atomic change control for packages/updates
* The ability to control the platform for support (we were more or less there with 7; 8 is a huge step back in this regard)
The best thing about BYOD is getting drunk dialed by your boss at 2am asking for him to come pick him up... and no, I'm not even kidding. That would be a highlight.
Long nights, lots of caffeine, and whiskey. Not necessarily in that order, sometimes combined.
I've never personally gotten a referral bonus, but I've been the reason someone else was supposed to get a bonus several times.
In my experience, the bonuses have not been that large - $500 has been the 'standard' new-hire bonus. Twice it was with smaller companies, once with an international corp. The international corp paid out but the smaller companies, lacking HR processes, shorted or delayed the payouts.
I've been shorted my "stay 6 months and get a bonus/raise" as well, even when it's been in writing. Be sure that shit is iron-clad - and of course, it's all meaningless in a right to work state.
While I do not disagree, in principle, with the conclusion in OP, you can hardly trust the conclusion of something the BSA publishes - which is less of a study than it is an argument for software licensing made up after the conclusion was reached to support their point.
I'm 31 years old. I recently bought a military surplus vehicle which was designed before I was born and manufactured before you were born. It is still in limited use in some National Guard applications but, for the most part, it has been decommissioned.
All of the manuals and, to large degree, parts and construction are fully known. The same can be said for the humvee, except it hasn't been decomissioned and is still in broad use.
Granted, the Chinese have blueprints for the humvee, and have been making their own for about 15 years now. But there is still an opsec danger to having information on your war machines publicly and easily available to the enemy. In the case of the humvee (or my cucv), there's a danger due to IEDs and other munitions being able to be specifically constructed to disable or destroy the up-armored variants.
With a war plane or missile, which is largely successful in today's world on the basis of secrecy, this is all the more significant. It doesn't matter that it's "old"; a country's ability to keep the specifics of its operational capabilities (flight time, flight speed, total engineered payload capacity, etc.) is largely the basis for its ability to wage warfare. If you own the secrets to your enemy's weapons of war, you diminish the weapons' usefulness. For instance: if the enemy knows a specific plane has a structural problem at a specific G, you design a missile which hits that G or greater, for a prolonged period. (Bad example, but you get my point, I hope.)
When you see 1 1/4 cups, or 55 mph, or 3 1/2 miles to the exit - there's a good chance that the measurement is inexact or unnecessary. Nobody actually paced out exactly 18,480 feet and placed the "3.5 mile" sign at exactly that spot. They placed the sign and filled in the best available number in the most convenient unit.
As someone who's done roadway surveying... yeah, um, that's a horribly ignorant statement. Maybe you live in CA or something, where that approach seems acceptable, but throughout most of the US, there is consistency in things like: distance between a stop sign and an intersection, roadway mile markers (some places it's a quarter mile, some places it's a mile, etc.). Believe it or not, a roadway where the speed limit is 55mph WILL be surveyed its full distance to within an inch of accuracy for elevation, the roadway bedding, incline, and curve - there's a lot of math that goes into it, and it's all thoroughly planned out.
Don't get me wrong: SI units are certainly preferable and superior in many cases, but in many others, it's completely asinine.
I am NOT going to have 0.000236588 cubic meters of coffee or sugar; I'm going to have a cup. (I may even have a quarter liter of coffee over that, but that isn't SI).
I'm going to go walk for a block or so, not 80 meters.
I AM going to do precise measurements for wood furniture with mm and cm, not inches.
I am NOT going to use those same mm and cm (or dm or m) measurements when I decide to re-frame the living room wall in house. (I wouldn't re-wire half my server room for DC current, either.)
There are many different measurement systems, many of which make sense in some situations; in others, they do not. Roadways in the US is one location where SI is absolutely retarded. (Proposing km instead of miles is, at this point, about as retarded as making the argument against miles or feet as a unit of measurement with "but not everyone's foot is the same size!" Oh, really.)
Why in the world would you do that?
* Maps are usually still in miles
* Everything around those highways is measured in miles (or acres...)
* Road exits, sections, etc. are measured in miles (and can be predicted by such), usually in a grid system
* It would add yet another distraction to the roadways, particularly in busy areas where there are lots of signs as it is.
* You gain nothing.
In terms of relevancy, we might as well be using cubits or furlongs...
I don't know about that really mattering.
Personally, I'm looking forward to the BSD Handgun.
Creationists never fold their cards, no matter how many times their claims are refuted.
Hello, microevolution?
In contrast, you've got irritating irregularities in taught evolutionary science which just refuse to die (eg. Lucy) and pesky irregularities in the fossil record which contradict common/popular evolutionary dogma, and are thus ignored or explained away...
That is a bit ironic, isn't it?
It's the disciples of disciplines which must have their "facts" refuted or proven - usually many times - before they are accepted as fact.
Philosophical biology, on the other hand, is largely hypothetical and closer to human sciences (like economics) than it is physics...
I wonder why that is.
Pfft. There are plenty of guys fucking many women, regularly, who live with their parents.
Just check out the dating sites sometime. "Needs to have a place of his own and not live with his mom" is not that uncommon.
Pfft. The cockroaches in Japan can grow to be the size of an eclair. You need a shotgun to kill them - which is unfortunate, since you can't have shotguns in Japan...
True story... my Uncle couldn't get rid of the roaches in his apartment in Tokyo, so he camped them with a pump pellet gun - which was illegal, of course. He grew up shooting squirrels and stuff in NY with such a pellet rifle, and the roaches require more pumps and more precise body location shooting than the rodents...
Yeah, it had nothing to do with the fact that Perl was one of the languages which more heavily influenced PS...
Perl is easy to write and, if written by someone who is lazy, difficult to read (due to how easy it is to write terse, functional code in perl). PS doesn't have this benefit; it's long-typed as well as cryptic/difficult to read.
Precisely! Adults are a bit more creative, too. We might say something hyperbolic like, "What kind of faggotry is this?!" instead, for instance.