Is it really "hacking" when it's just a matter of some walnut being so incompetent as to not reset a default password? Seems like intelligent guessing to me.
It might be great at first, but eventually it will become dominated by money, just like every racing sport did. People are trying get like made to revitalize grass-roots racing, but tracks keep shutting down. It gets to the point that the guys with a few times the budget of the rest far outclass the others. As soon as it becomes a profitable business to be the provider of the best performing parts and drones, the garage tinkerers will be left in the dust unless they have the dough.
Except uber has made it easier, cleaner, cheaper, and more enjoyable (which you might say counts as "better"), so if you could bring those traits to the services you are describing, then you'd probably have all the business you could handle (you'd have mine).
You call people who use these services "suckers", but I fail to see how they are. Yes, they are taking some risk into their own hands. But calling them suckers makes it seem like they are not getting the services for which they are paying. If they weren't, uber/lyft/etc wouldn't be in business.
And as far as getting into a car with a driver with "no training", you aren't doing much different every day. They drive on the same roads as you. I've yet to ride with one driver who was less safe than the geniuses careening down the road while texting.
I promise the large number of people that are snapping up guns aren't doing it because they are disillusioned about defending themselves. Most of these people already have all they need if the situation arose. They are doing it because they have a perception of a future scarcity, and they consider it a wise investment to stock up. This continues because history has proven them right. Any time there have been talks of anything resembling the old assault weapons ban, it caused prices to soar. And prices did soar continually during the old one. So you get two approaches:
1. Buy what you want/can before the price goes obscene.
and if you are so inclined,
2. Sell when the price is high and make a nice profit.
Preferably a PE in EE. Even if you have the start of an idea, anything dealing with safety and electricity will need to go through UL and or CSA. The specifications for anything that touches hazardous voltages is not easy to digest and apply if you don't have experience with it. Without approval, your device will sit..
Also, patents for actual electronics are HARD to enforce. They nature of circuitry is not obvious by just looking at it. You have to spend a lot of investigation just to know if somebody has done something your patent covers.
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Is it really "hacking" when it's just a matter of some walnut being so incompetent as to not reset a default password? Seems like intelligent guessing to me.
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It might be great at first, but eventually it will become dominated by money, just like every racing sport did. People are trying get like made to revitalize grass-roots racing, but tracks keep shutting down. It gets to the point that the guys with a few times the budget of the rest far outclass the others. As soon as it becomes a profitable business to be the provider of the best performing parts and drones, the garage tinkerers will be left in the dust unless they have the dough.
Except uber has made it easier, cleaner, cheaper, and more enjoyable (which you might say counts as "better"), so if you could bring those traits to the services you are describing, then you'd probably have all the business you could handle (you'd have mine). You call people who use these services "suckers", but I fail to see how they are. Yes, they are taking some risk into their own hands. But calling them suckers makes it seem like they are not getting the services for which they are paying. If they weren't, uber/lyft/etc wouldn't be in business. And as far as getting into a car with a driver with "no training", you aren't doing much different every day. They drive on the same roads as you. I've yet to ride with one driver who was less safe than the geniuses careening down the road while texting.
I promise the large number of people that are snapping up guns aren't doing it because they are disillusioned about defending themselves. Most of these people already have all they need if the situation arose. They are doing it because they have a perception of a future scarcity, and they consider it a wise investment to stock up. This continues because history has proven them right. Any time there have been talks of anything resembling the old assault weapons ban, it caused prices to soar. And prices did soar continually during the old one. So you get two approaches: 1. Buy what you want/can before the price goes obscene. and if you are so inclined, 2. Sell when the price is high and make a nice profit.
Once graphene had dreams of being the next wonder material. "Better transistors! Stronger than steel!" they sang. But now... Dental fillings.
Preferably a PE in EE. Even if you have the start of an idea, anything dealing with safety and electricity will need to go through UL and or CSA. The specifications for anything that touches hazardous voltages is not easy to digest and apply if you don't have experience with it. Without approval, your device will sit.. Also, patents for actual electronics are HARD to enforce. They nature of circuitry is not obvious by just looking at it. You have to spend a lot of investigation just to know if somebody has done something your patent covers.