I purchased a genuine 12w apple charger from an Australian eBay seller. It failed within a week. I pulled it apart and it was clearly a Chinese knockoff. The creepage between primary and secondary was almost non existent. I told the seller and they were 'shocked'. I pulled apart the replacement they sent, and it too was a knockoff, albeit with better creepage. I told the supplier they needed to take down their Ad as they had sold over 300 of these things. Well after many back and forth emails, they start getting abusive. They just couldn't comprehend that that had broken Australian electrical safety laws, consumer seller laws and violated apples copyright.
The sad thing is, as I did more research, I find out: eBay doesn't give a toss; unless someone has died, the government regulators don't give a toss. So I reported them to Apple,but to be honest, I don't think Apple care that much either. So this means, if you really want a genuine charger that won't kill anyone, you need pay the Apple tax.
Having driven a Tesla S for a week, I found the autopilot dangerous and stopped using it. If your lighting is good, and you lane markings are good, it works OK; but other wise all you hear is a little bong and your on your own.
The trouble with autopilot is you still need to 100% concentrate as it could give up at any moment or come across a condition it doesn't understand, but the feature lends you to taking 100% of your concentration off the task of driving. They should limit it to adaptive cruise control, e-braking, but not steering.
Seriously.... this is how wars start. And considering the powers that are involved, this can't possibly end well.... for anybody.
Have you considered that this is EXACTLY what they want. More war. The manipulation of the media has become so obvious as to make them useless except for local news. eg. 95% of news stories in Australia on US politics are Trump bashing. (Much of which he deserves) Hillary gets next to zero news stories. (She must be super unappealing for that to happen) Putin is portrayed as some evil psychopath, but when you listen to his speeches, he seems like a pretty rational dude that doesn't have that extra layer political fakeness of western politicians.
I would say the military industrial complex is chomping at the bit for more war to line their pockets.
And this practice is illegal in Australia, and I expect much of Europe. Australia has very strong unfair dismissal laws that require us to either provide genuine redundancy, of give multiple performance reviews with genuine attempts at improving employee performance.
I wonder what makes Americans so resistant to change, and when they implement change, it has so many compromises to be unworkable?
Whether it be. - Adoption of the metric system - More sensible gun management - Universal basic health care - Writing dates mm-dd-yy - Reform of you court/prison system
Australia has changed completely to chip cards. Mag swipe is no longer accepted. For most merchants, transactions below $100, contact-less is used. For over $100, a pin is required (and for some cards like amex, you need to insert the card for a chip read). The transactions take around 2 seconds.
It works great. The $100 threshold is a good compromise for convenience vs fraud risk.
I assume you are complaining because your banks have stuffed up the implementation???
Are you kidding me? The USA started all of this with their illegal invasion of IRAQ. Those dispossessed Baathists eventually became ISIS, with lots of funding from the Saudis and training from the CIA. The USA are the thug arm of the financial elite.
Sorry, but you have no clue. These level of failure rates are a nightmare, as they are next to impossible for engineering to detect. What do think is a reasonable amount of battery/charger circuit combos to test. 100, 1000, 10000. Even at 10000, it was unlikely to be detected.
How on earth will anyone tell they have a fixed phone? Will it have a big S on it for safe. Or be a different colour? Or will you have to find some tiny serial number and look it up? I do feel sorry for Samsung, as you can test hundreds of samples and not see a problem, but when you sell millions it only takes a low failure rate with a big consequence to have major repercussions.
Yep. BGAs are difficult to rework, but perhaps the real blame for this can be aimed at the EU when they forced the electronics industry to transition to lead free solder 15 years ago, while not touching other industries, like car batteries. Solder used to be 60%tin 40% lead. Lead was a great modifier to give ductility to solder joints. By going to almost 100% tin, solder joints are now more brittle, thus micro BGAs suffer more from thermal expansion fractures and shear fractures from physical drops. The crazy thing, is the transition, which cost the industry Billions, was based on unproven science that tin/lead solder leached in ground fill rubbish dumps. It doesn't unless you have acid. But here we are today, stuck with a EU mandated change that increases energy to manufacturer and decreases reliability (see tin asker problem as well).
American Culture seems to be strongly influenced by 'every man for himself'; or more subtly, your destiny is made by you and the effort you put into life. If you happen to be lazy, then suffer you.
I think there are three levels of maturity in a people and society: 1- Dependency (Child Stage) 2- Independence (Late Teen Stage). ie I can do it without anyone's help 3- Interdependence (Mature Stage) we all need to work together.
The USA seems to have gotten stuck between 2 & 3, while Europe/Canada/Australia went on to stage 3. ie, We have strong social support systems such as good basic free medical care, good basic social security services, humane prisons with some attempt to reform. While I as a tax payer don't like supporting lazy people, I think it is the lesser of two evils. ie having destitute people resort to crime with all the associated costs. So I think the article is right, but culturally I don't see the USA ever changing within my lifetime.
Fine, don't floss: but when you have a conversation with me, and you a piece of rotting meat stuck in your mouth for days on end, I'm taking 10 paces back.
Have made a shielded room, and done plenty of EMC in others; it is super hard to keep cell signals out. The article looks like he has glass windows and is not underground. With an EMC room, you need conductive foam braid on the the door seals, and soon as you crack the door, you get cell coverage. Even the wiring has to have filters, as the radio waves can get in and out via wiring, plumbing etc. glass windows would need fine copper mesh. More likely he has a jammer installed, and and just told everyone it's done by mesh.
As an Australian, we did away with mag stripe many years ago. For transactions under $100, most cards/retailers use contactless 'pay wave' transaction using RFID. A pin is required for larger transactions. Signatures are not used anymore For larger retails, the transaction takes about 2 seconds; for smaller retailers still using dial up, it takes 10 seconds.
I drive around sunrise and dusk, so it had trouble with lighting from low sun angles. It also would get confused with lane merging / diverging markings and also if there were weathered patches of line markings.
I hear that in America, if you try to sell unpasteurised milk, they send a SWAT team. USA, USA. In Australia we have to buy it as bath milk... And as you say, it doesn't go off like pasteurised milk, but starts naturally fermenting and taking on yogurt like flavours.
*this* I've driven a tesla with autopilot for a week, and thought it was an undercooked dangerous feature. The number of times it gave up auto steering because it got confused and the only warning you get is a subtle bong with sometimes sub second reaction times to stop an indecent made turn it off altogether. I agree with consumer reports. It should be disabled.
Totally agree with you protest_boy. I drove a Tesla for a week with the Auto Pilot function and found it dangerous. Because it relies on white lines for steering, a soon as conditions become non ideal, it gives up. Volvo said semi autonomous driving was a bad idea, and I agree with them. You often have hundreds of milliseconds to take corrective action, and half assed autonomous driving system (tesla has no LIDAR) will leave you lapsing concentration for extended periods making you a risk on the road.
Those in the electronics industry, esp EU, Australia, know Farnell (also Newark and Element 14) as a tier 1 supplier to engineers of electrical and electronic parts. Their catalogue is thicker than your fist, and RPI's make up a couple of pages. Thus the big story is not about RPIs, but that one of the largest electronic component suppliers has been acquired by a Swiss company.
We would place an order every other day with these guys, but the competition is fierce from Digikey, who would now be the worlds No1 general component supplier, with Mouser and Farnell running second.
Yes. Disagreement is not hate. I don't think a homosexual lifestyle is morally good, but I don't hate homosexuals, yet in Australia, that opinion in public is close to 'hate speech'
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I purchased a genuine 12w apple charger from an Australian eBay seller. It failed within a week. I pulled it apart and it was clearly a Chinese knockoff. The creepage between primary and secondary was almost non existent. I told the seller and they were 'shocked'. I pulled apart the replacement they sent, and it too was a knockoff, albeit with better creepage. I told the supplier they needed to take down their Ad as they had sold over 300 of these things. Well after many back and forth emails, they start getting abusive. They just couldn't comprehend that that had broken Australian electrical safety laws, consumer seller laws and violated apples copyright.
The sad thing is, as I did more research, I find out: eBay doesn't give a toss; unless someone has died, the government regulators don't give a toss. So I reported them to Apple,but to be honest, I don't think Apple care that much either.
So this means, if you really want a genuine charger that won't kill anyone, you need pay the Apple tax.
Having driven a Tesla S for a week, I found the autopilot dangerous and stopped using it.
If your lighting is good, and you lane markings are good, it works OK; but other wise all you hear is a little bong and your on your own.
The trouble with autopilot is you still need to 100% concentrate as it could give up at any moment or come across a condition it doesn't understand, but the feature lends you to taking 100% of your concentration off the task of driving.
They should limit it to adaptive cruise control, e-braking, but not steering.
Seriously.... this is how wars start. And considering the powers that are involved, this can't possibly end well.... for anybody.
Have you considered that this is EXACTLY what they want.
More war. The manipulation of the media has become so obvious as to make them useless except for local news.
eg.
95% of news stories in Australia on US politics are Trump bashing. (Much of which he deserves)
Hillary gets next to zero news stories. (She must be super unappealing for that to happen)
Putin is portrayed as some evil psychopath, but when you listen to his speeches, he seems like a pretty rational dude that doesn't have that extra layer political fakeness of western politicians.
I would say the military industrial complex is chomping at the bit for more war to line their pockets.
And this practice is illegal in Australia, and I expect much of Europe.
Australia has very strong unfair dismissal laws that require us to either provide genuine redundancy, of give multiple performance reviews with genuine attempts at improving employee performance.
While we're trolling Americans...
Yep.. and their still thinking corks are superior on wine bottles
I wonder what makes Americans so resistant to change, and when they implement change, it has so many compromises to be unworkable?
Whether it be.
- Adoption of the metric system
- More sensible gun management
- Universal basic health care
- Writing dates mm-dd-yy
- Reform of you court/prison system
Australia has changed completely to chip cards. Mag swipe is no longer accepted.
For most merchants, transactions below $100, contact-less is used.
For over $100, a pin is required (and for some cards like amex, you need to insert the card for a chip read).
The transactions take around 2 seconds.
It works great. The $100 threshold is a good compromise for convenience vs fraud risk.
I assume you are complaining because your banks have stuffed up the implementation???
Are you kidding me?
The USA started all of this with their illegal invasion of IRAQ.
Those dispossessed Baathists eventually became ISIS, with lots of funding from the Saudis and training from the CIA.
The USA are the thug arm of the financial elite.
Sorry, but you have no clue.
These level of failure rates are a nightmare, as they are next to impossible for engineering to detect.
What do think is a reasonable amount of battery/charger circuit combos to test. 100, 1000, 10000. Even at 10000, it was unlikely to be detected.
How on earth will anyone tell they have a fixed phone? Will it have a big S on it for safe. Or be a different colour? Or will you have to find some tiny serial number and look it up?
I do feel sorry for Samsung, as you can test hundreds of samples and not see a problem, but when you sell millions it only takes a low failure rate with a big consequence to have major repercussions.
Yep. BGAs are difficult to rework, but perhaps the real blame for this can be aimed at the EU when they forced the electronics industry to transition to lead free solder 15 years ago, while not touching other industries, like car batteries.
Solder used to be 60%tin 40% lead. Lead was a great modifier to give ductility to solder joints. By going to almost 100% tin, solder joints are now more brittle, thus micro BGAs suffer more from thermal expansion fractures and shear fractures from physical drops.
The crazy thing, is the transition, which cost the industry Billions, was based on unproven science that tin/lead solder leached in ground fill rubbish dumps. It doesn't unless you have acid. But here we are today, stuck with a EU mandated change that increases energy to manufacturer and decreases reliability (see tin asker problem as well).
American Culture seems to be strongly influenced by 'every man for himself'; or more subtly, your destiny is made by you and the effort you put into life. If you happen to be lazy, then suffer you.
I think there are three levels of maturity in a people and society:
1- Dependency (Child Stage)
2- Independence (Late Teen Stage). ie I can do it without anyone's help
3- Interdependence (Mature Stage) we all need to work together.
The USA seems to have gotten stuck between 2 & 3, while Europe/Canada/Australia went on to stage 3.
ie, We have strong social support systems such as good basic free medical care, good basic social security services, humane prisons with some attempt to reform.
While I as a tax payer don't like supporting lazy people, I think it is the lesser of two evils. ie having destitute people resort to crime with all the associated costs.
So I think the article is right, but culturally I don't see the USA ever changing within my lifetime.
Maybe the DNC can add Assange to that list soon.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...
Fine, don't floss:
but when you have a conversation with me, and you a piece of rotting meat stuck in your mouth for days on end, I'm taking 10 paces back.
Have made a shielded room, and done plenty of EMC in others; it is super hard to keep cell signals out. The article looks like he has glass windows and is not underground. With an EMC room, you need conductive foam braid on the the door seals, and soon as you crack the door, you get cell coverage. Even the wiring has to have filters, as the radio waves can get in and out via wiring, plumbing etc. glass windows would need fine copper mesh. More likely he has a jammer installed, and and just told everyone it's done by mesh.
As an Australian, we did away with mag stripe many years ago.
For transactions under $100, most cards/retailers use contactless 'pay wave' transaction using RFID.
A pin is required for larger transactions.
Signatures are not used anymore
For larger retails, the transaction takes about 2 seconds; for smaller retailers still using dial up, it takes 10 seconds.
I drive around sunrise and dusk, so it had trouble with lighting from low sun angles.
It also would get confused with lane merging / diverging markings and also if there were weathered patches of line markings.
Thanks for the informative reply.
A lot more diversity than I would have guessed other wise.
I hear that in America, if you try to sell unpasteurised milk, they send a SWAT team. USA, USA.
In Australia we have to buy it as bath milk... And as you say, it doesn't go off like pasteurised milk, but starts naturally fermenting and taking on yogurt like flavours.
I have to agree with you.
As Hylandr says below.
Gender is not a social construct. Mental illness on the other hand is.
The trouble is, disagreement is now seen as hate?
*this*
I've driven a tesla with autopilot for a week, and thought it was an undercooked dangerous feature. The number of times it gave up auto steering because it got confused and the only warning you get is a subtle bong with sometimes sub second reaction times to stop an indecent made turn it off altogether.
I agree with consumer reports. It should be disabled.
Totally agree with you protest_boy.
I drove a Tesla for a week with the Auto Pilot function and found it dangerous.
Because it relies on white lines for steering, a soon as conditions become non ideal, it gives up.
Volvo said semi autonomous driving was a bad idea, and I agree with them.
You often have hundreds of milliseconds to take corrective action, and half assed autonomous driving system (tesla has no LIDAR) will leave you lapsing concentration for extended periods making you a risk on the road.
Hmmm.. I reckon the algos started around 1980.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/...
A link for the lazy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
This car rocks.You computer nerds have no style!
Those in the electronics industry, esp EU, Australia, know Farnell (also Newark and Element 14) as a tier 1 supplier to engineers of electrical and electronic parts.
Their catalogue is thicker than your fist, and RPI's make up a couple of pages.
Thus the big story is not about RPIs, but that one of the largest electronic component suppliers has been acquired by a Swiss company.
We would place an order every other day with these guys, but the competition is fierce from Digikey, who would now be the worlds No1 general component supplier, with Mouser and Farnell running second.
Yes. Disagreement is not hate.
I don't think a homosexual lifestyle is morally good, but I don't hate homosexuals, yet in Australia, that opinion in public is close to 'hate speech'