If I ever gain access to your car, for the 20 seconds it takes me to plug a controller into the canbus, I can control things on the canbus.
Since the ODBII port provides power, one can imagine a 'skimmer' style controller that sits in the ODBII port and provides an ODBII port, while waiting for a signal to do whatever.
Unless people challenge these illegal activities, they'll just keep on and on.
At some point, people who are paying careful enough attention will realize that even if they challenge these illegal activities, they'll just keep on and on.
And then they will be faced with the option of either supporting or abolishing that institution which abuses them.
Decades ago the government used illegal surveillance to attempt to quash the civil rights movement. What assurances do we have that they won't do this again?
Perhaps you missed the FBI's work on the financial blockade against OWS?
Yeah, isn't it awesome how the serfs get to fund the battle domes for the rich boys' games? Let's keep telling them that society would fall apart if they didn't.
Justin Amash is just the kind of Representative that could really make this system work, if there were 430 more like him. He posts all of his votes online and explains his rationale, which is almost always concerned foremost with the legality of the proposed legislation.
For that reason, most of his amendments fail and he's usually on the losing side of popular votes. I'll be delighted if his amendment succeeds and is not subsequently removed in conference or by another amendment, but if I were a betting man, I would not bet on his effort tomorrow having any actual impact on the funding.
Light fixtures that shine the light where you want it (typically down) and block it from shining where it's not needed. Many communities that have building codes are requiring these where people can still see the stars at night.
They can be used in combination with motion sensors or stand-alone.
But if you live in one of those communities where everybody has a spotlight on the front of their McMansion to show the stone façade work off to passers-by... well, some things just can't be fixed.
I still don't understand it, but there was a patent issue a few years back, where the smaller player put up a plea to the community for help invalidating a certain patent that the megalocorp was wielding against it.
Being curious, I did a quick Google Groups search (Splotsky's 15 minutes sounds about right) and submitted the prior art (a then-defunct software package that was announced on a Usenet group which had the same functionality years before).
A few months later, I got a note from council, asking if I had any contacts with that software company and that they were using my submission as the basis as their challenge, which they ultimately won a couple years later.
Anyway, the surprise was how easy it was for me to find that prior art when the company hadn't managed to. The work I do overlaps with what they do, so, yeah, I had some domain expertise, but so did their employees.
FWIW, they never offered me a token copy of their software or anything for my help. I wasn't expecting it (I'd have no use for it anyway - they make complex proprietary configurations of open source software, while I tend to use the simple-blocks model), but it was also surprising to me that there was no follow-up or loop-closing after the fact. So, if you get into this kind of hobby, do it for the knowledge that you're helping defeat a dangerous patent system.
it doesn't come with codecs, Flash, any proprietary repositories, VirtualBox, etc. That's why Adobe, Oracle and RPMFusion exist, they are add-ons to the core of Fedora.
Which only contain a few hundred packages, mostly due to licensing issues that Fedora doesn't want to tackle (have an argument with the government over).
No thank you, I'll stick with an all-in-one set up like Mint or Debian.
Adobe doesn't even run a repo for Debian and its packages rely on downloading binaries raw, without repo support. It's good that the intermediate packagers make the effort to stay on top of vendor updates, though.
yeah... I've done a little bit of designing WiFi networks to work in very difficult locations, and the general thought experiment is to think of both ends of the path as the points of a football. Unless there's ground in the way, in which case the football goes through the earth, except when it doesn't. Or if there's a metal roof inside the football, except all of that is illusory and not really what it looks like, to the extent that anything exists and is not virtual. It's not like visible light in its behavior, and these get wildly different at different frequencies.
I get the impression that Tesla could visualize it, but most humans just don't have it in them.
Things are unlikely to improve unless we really improve the quality and availability of education.
Aye, there's the rub. I think it was Carlin who expressed it rather succinctly: they want the people to be educated just enough to operate the machines, but not enough to question the system. Certainly in my experience, the more educated and informed a person is, the more likely he is to question the system.
When 'the system' wrests control of the educational system, what else is to be expected? Good luck un-doing that one while the products of that system demand it. If there's a way out of this Catch-22, I don't know about it.
Unless you're willing to be the guinea pig who runs it through to the SCOTUS, it's perfectly 'legal' until SCOTUS says otherwise.
No, SCOTUS has repeated found that unconstitutional laws were always illegal, and thus all of their effects are unwound upon such a finding.
However this will not stop the government from fucking you over, under the guise of legality, until such a finding is held.
It can also bite the country in the ass, because sometimes SCOTUS will hold a law to be legal and cite the reason as being because it would be too hard to unwind. Constitutional Chaos has a few examples, and there was a recent one in the news as well. This is actually one of the root-cause problems of the current system - it's biased to proceed towards more power by this Court construction.
FYI, most of the articles on mercola and naturalnews are propaganda. Sometimes they reference legitimate science before going off on their tirade, and sometimes that science is worth reading. Almost always, those sites twist and distort the actual science though.
Is there any evidence that roundup ready crops are less nutritious?
Well, they *should* be, so we should expect them to be.
If you're going to go to all that effort to produce a GMO, you should pick the one that's going to be the most marketable. The varieties that are selected for modification are the biggest, most symmetrical, and those having the best shipping characteristics are usually not the best tasting, and their flesh lacks color which means they lack the concentrations of bioflavanoids, at least, and do not have the best flavor, along which usually comes nutrients, so it would be blind dumb luck, therefore very unlikely, for them to contain the most of other nutrients.
The same can also be said for non-GMO supermarket produce that's shipped far distances, but GMO's are probably part of that set.
To be fair, a GMO (e.g. yellow rice) can be made to promote nutrition - that's just not what Monsanto does in the commerical market, and therefore gives GMO's a bad name.
In the vegetarian world we have a name for those folk who eat fish oil and wear leather shoes they are called liars.
I especially like the vegetarians who don't grow their own organic food and will eat food raised with pesticides, driven on trucks that kill hundreds of millions of birds and billions of insects and then declare themselves "murder free".
Or if they play the piano, or... heck, don't let vegetarians watch "How It's Made".
Be careful with that - they don't use the good stuff there, they try to minimize costs. So, you'll find oxidized folates in flour and such instead of the bioavailable forms, which seems to cause autoimmune-like reactions in some people, and has been implicated in the difference between normal gestations and autistic gestations.
How about if you know who posted the last copy online, he doesn't get any more issues?
Yeah, this is probably the best way to stop the unauthorized distribution.
However, the OP says, "HELP, we have a problem of massive free distribution, please help us stop it!" and it seems like we probably shouldn't help them too much, for their own good, other than possibly to show them business models that will help them move to an ad-supported model.
SWAT? - small potatoes. When CyberComm moved under the NSA with General Alexander, he brought with him an Army brigade and the 10th Navy Fleet. Those are NSA-controlled at this point.
Moreover, this guy should be fired for [among a host of other reasons] fundamentally failing to understand government in general and the American (founding) vision of government.
Well he was right. The US Constitution had to be amended to prohibit alcohol, as the Federal Government did not have that power. It was repealed. Nothing was added to the Constitution to give it the power to prohibit ditch weed, or anything else of the sort. The whole War on Drugs is illegal - at least if the Constitution is still in effect.
When people swear to defend it against enemies foreign and domestic, these are the domestic ones they're talking about. I'm saddened that this veteran saw death as his only way out.
Somebody in DC thinks we're better off now then we were before, when he had 16 plants in his house.
If gun ownership in a society is as ubiquitous as in the United States then the police necessarily have to be at least as well armed and trained in military tactics.
which, in turn, stems from the stance of the government. The Second Amendment isn't about deer hunting or self-defense, per se, it's about being able to overthrow your government when you need to, as the guys who wrote it had just done.
This massive military government was never envisioned - the Army was only to be able to be stood up for two years at a time.
It's a failing of the highest order, and makes the People less safe. The answer to "does the Second Amendment allow people to own a nuclear weapon" is clearly, "if that's a problem then the government should get rid of its nuclear weapons."
A constant escalation by both sides cannot end well. Actually, just that we have 'two sides to the conflict' is damning evidence enough.
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If I ever gain access to your car, for the 20 seconds it takes me to plug a controller into the canbus, I can control things on the canbus.
Since the ODBII port provides power, one can imagine a 'skimmer' style controller that sits in the ODBII port and provides an ODBII port, while waiting for a signal to do whatever.
Your first mistake there is allowing onstar to be physically present in your car.
I made a similar mistake for a couple years, but I did verify with a meter that pulling the fuse is really pulling the fuse, at least on a 2005.
kind and good normal people have been known to turn it off under certain conditions
the euphemism is "political sophistication".
There's a lot of irony here given Google's defense of Android's use of the Java API's in the Oracle suit.
Good point - it seems like a very straightforward defense. Who will fund the test case, then?
Unless people challenge these illegal activities, they'll just keep on and on.
At some point, people who are paying careful enough attention will realize that even if they challenge these illegal activities, they'll just keep on and on.
And then they will be faced with the option of either supporting or abolishing that institution which abuses them.
Decades ago the government used illegal surveillance to attempt to quash the civil rights movement. What assurances do we have that they won't do this again?
Perhaps you missed the FBI's work on the financial blockade against OWS?
Yeah, isn't it awesome how the serfs get to fund the battle domes for the rich boys' games? Let's keep telling them that society would fall apart if they didn't.
The LEGALITY of proposed legislation?! Are you retarded? Legislation IS legality! That's what it is! It's LAWS!
Do you seriously not understand the hierarchy of laws in the US? Where did you go to school?
Justin Amash is just the kind of Representative that could really make this system work, if there were 430 more like him. He posts all of his votes online and explains his rationale, which is almost always concerned foremost with the legality of the proposed legislation.
For that reason, most of his amendments fail and he's usually on the losing side of popular votes. I'll be delighted if his amendment succeeds and is not subsequently removed in conference or by another amendment, but if I were a betting man, I would not bet on his effort tomorrow having any actual impact on the funding.
Light fixtures that shine the light where you want it (typically down) and block it from shining where it's not needed. Many communities that have building codes are requiring these where people can still see the stars at night.
They can be used in combination with motion sensors or stand-alone.
But if you live in one of those communities where everybody has a spotlight on the front of their McMansion to show the stone façade work off to passers-by ... well, some things just can't be fixed.
I still don't understand it, but there was a patent issue a few years back, where the smaller player put up a plea to the community for help invalidating a certain patent that the megalocorp was wielding against it.
Being curious, I did a quick Google Groups search (Splotsky's 15 minutes sounds about right) and submitted the prior art (a then-defunct software package that was announced on a Usenet group which had the same functionality years before).
A few months later, I got a note from council, asking if I had any contacts with that software company and that they were using my submission as the basis as their challenge, which they ultimately won a couple years later.
Anyway, the surprise was how easy it was for me to find that prior art when the company hadn't managed to. The work I do overlaps with what they do, so, yeah, I had some domain expertise, but so did their employees.
FWIW, they never offered me a token copy of their software or anything for my help. I wasn't expecting it (I'd have no use for it anyway - they make complex proprietary configurations of open source software, while I tend to use the simple-blocks model), but it was also surprising to me that there was no follow-up or loop-closing after the fact. So, if you get into this kind of hobby, do it for the knowledge that you're helping defeat a dangerous patent system.
Fedora itself is a relatively small, bare distribution.
There are fourteen thousand software packages in Fedora.
it doesn't come with codecs, Flash, any proprietary repositories, VirtualBox, etc. That's why Adobe, Oracle and RPMFusion exist, they are add-ons to the core of Fedora.
Which only contain a few hundred packages, mostly due to licensing issues that Fedora doesn't want to tackle (have an argument with the government over).
No thank you, I'll stick with an all-in-one set up like Mint or Debian.
Adobe doesn't even run a repo for Debian and its packages rely on downloading binaries raw, without repo support. It's good that the intermediate packagers make the effort to stay on top of vendor updates, though.
- Make the distro more "exciting"
I'd be excited if upgrades weren't an ugly afterthought. Y'know, because everybody has to do it at least once a year.
If it takes this 'ring' idea, to force the upgrade issue, and perhaps versioned packages outside of kernel-*, then I'll get behind it.
yeah ... I've done a little bit of designing WiFi networks to work in very difficult locations, and the general thought experiment is to think of both ends of the path as the points of a football. Unless there's ground in the way, in which case the football goes through the earth, except when it doesn't. Or if there's a metal roof inside the football, except all of that is illusory and not really what it looks like, to the extent that anything exists and is not virtual. It's not like visible light in its behavior, and these get wildly different at different frequencies.
I get the impression that Tesla could visualize it, but most humans just don't have it in them.
It's not just a comedy play and a movie anymore.
Surely, the British will be blocking all the violence too, right? Because seeing people killed is much more proper than seeing people made, no?
It's a good story if you expect people to go off and die for your political aspirations.
Things are unlikely to improve unless we really improve the quality and availability of education.
Aye, there's the rub. I think it was Carlin who expressed it rather succinctly: they want the people to be educated just enough to operate the machines, but not enough to question the system. Certainly in my experience, the more educated and informed a person is, the more likely he is to question the system.
When 'the system' wrests control of the educational system, what else is to be expected? Good luck un-doing that one while the products of that system demand it. If there's a way out of this Catch-22, I don't know about it.
Unless you're willing to be the guinea pig who runs it through to the SCOTUS, it's perfectly 'legal' until SCOTUS says otherwise.
No, SCOTUS has repeated found that unconstitutional laws were always illegal, and thus all of their effects are unwound upon such a finding.
However this will not stop the government from fucking you over, under the guise of legality, until such a finding is held.
It can also bite the country in the ass, because sometimes SCOTUS will hold a law to be legal and cite the reason as being because it would be too hard to unwind. Constitutional Chaos has a few examples, and there was a recent one in the news as well. This is actually one of the root-cause problems of the current system - it's biased to proceed towards more power by this Court construction.
FYI, most of the articles on mercola and naturalnews are propaganda. Sometimes they reference legitimate science before going off on their tirade, and sometimes that science is worth reading. Almost always, those sites twist and distort the actual science though.
Is there any evidence that roundup ready crops are less nutritious?
Well, they *should* be, so we should expect them to be.
If you're going to go to all that effort to produce a GMO, you should pick the one that's going to be the most marketable. The varieties that are selected for modification are the biggest, most symmetrical, and those having the best shipping characteristics are usually not the best tasting, and their flesh lacks color which means they lack the concentrations of bioflavanoids, at least, and do not have the best flavor, along which usually comes nutrients, so it would be blind dumb luck, therefore very unlikely, for them to contain the most of other nutrients.
The same can also be said for non-GMO supermarket produce that's shipped far distances, but GMO's are probably part of that set.
To be fair, a GMO (e.g. yellow rice) can be made to promote nutrition - that's just not what Monsanto does in the commerical market, and therefore gives GMO's a bad name.
In the vegetarian world we have a name for those folk who eat fish oil and wear leather shoes they are called liars.
I especially like the vegetarians who don't grow their own organic food and will eat food raised with pesticides, driven on trucks that kill hundreds of millions of birds and billions of insects and then declare themselves "murder free".
Or if they play the piano, or ... heck, don't let vegetarians watch "How It's Made".
everything to cereal
Be careful with that - they don't use the good stuff there, they try to minimize costs. So, you'll find oxidized folates in flour and such instead of the bioavailable forms, which seems to cause autoimmune-like reactions in some people, and has been implicated in the difference between normal gestations and autistic gestations.
How about if you know who posted the last copy online, he doesn't get any more issues?
Yeah, this is probably the best way to stop the unauthorized distribution.
However, the OP says, "HELP, we have a problem of massive free distribution, please help us stop it!" and it seems like we probably shouldn't help them too much, for their own good, other than possibly to show them business models that will help them move to an ad-supported model.
the authority to send a swat team to my door?
SWAT? - small potatoes. When CyberComm moved under the NSA with General Alexander, he brought with him an Army brigade and the 10th Navy Fleet. Those are NSA-controlled at this point.
Moreover, this guy should be fired for [among a host of other reasons] fundamentally failing to understand government in general and the American (founding) vision of government.
Well he was right. The US Constitution had to be amended to prohibit alcohol, as the Federal Government did not have that power. It was repealed. Nothing was added to the Constitution to give it the power to prohibit ditch weed, or anything else of the sort. The whole War on Drugs is illegal - at least if the Constitution is still in effect.
When people swear to defend it against enemies foreign and domestic, these are the domestic ones they're talking about. I'm saddened that this veteran saw death as his only way out.
Somebody in DC thinks we're better off now then we were before, when he had 16 plants in his house.
If gun ownership in a society is as ubiquitous as in the United States then the police necessarily have to be at least as well armed and trained in military tactics.
which, in turn, stems from the stance of the government. The Second Amendment isn't about deer hunting or self-defense, per se, it's about being able to overthrow your government when you need to, as the guys who wrote it had just done.
This massive military government was never envisioned - the Army was only to be able to be stood up for two years at a time.
It's a failing of the highest order, and makes the People less safe. The answer to "does the Second Amendment allow people to own a nuclear weapon" is clearly, "if that's a problem then the government should get rid of its nuclear weapons."
A constant escalation by both sides cannot end well. Actually, just that we have 'two sides to the conflict' is damning evidence enough.