If ever there was a time for the Americans here to write to their congressman and ask that they support a particular bill, this is the time. I may not be American or know a whole lot about American politics but even I know that this is probably one of the most important bills proposed in Congress in at least a decade.
Cruise control already controls the speed of the car. Adaptive cruise control will drive at whatever speed it needs to drive at based on the distance to the cars in front and behind. Why not extend the adaptive cruise control system so that it will drive no faster than the speed limit (as determined by whatever this system uses) unless it has to drive faster due to the speed of the car behind (i.e. the car behind is going faster than the speed limit and therefore this car has to in order to not get rear-ended).
It could then, like existing cruise control systems, be overridden by the driver if need be (via pressing on the accelerator pedal) but by default it would keep the driver at the speed limit unless it needed to go slower due to the car in front or faster due to the car behind.
If you were a cop and you were sent to an address in response to a 911 call claiming that there was someone at that address with a dangerous weapon, would you walk up to the door and knock politely? I dont think so, you would want to stop the person inside from using any weapons they have on you before they have the chance to react.
Yeah there is a big difference between someone driving, say, a Mitsubishi ASX (basically a lancer on stilts) and someone driving, say, a Holden Colorado 7 (an SUV version of the Australian-market Holden Colorado truck)
Many older Japanese cars like Corollas, Pulsars, Civics etc are VERY reliable and still good choices even today (in terms of the likelihood of things going wrong and needing to be fixed) as long as they haven't been written off (crashed and rebuilt and re-registered) and have been properly maintained.
Such things already exist. Devices that plug into the OBD2 port on a vehicle and monitor/log all the relavent information already exist. Some combine this with GPS tracking (to log where the car is as well as how its being driven).
Plenty of options for parents to monitor how their teenager is driving and whether they are driving safely or not, this just happens to be one actually built into the car (and capable of doing more than just logging as a result)
The roads in Australia are filled with SUVs just as much as they are in the US (and that number seems to be growing all the time based on my observations) and yet people who know what they are talking about (including a family member who has been working in dealerships and selling both new and used cars for decades and now works in management at a dealer) still recommend small fuel efficient Japanese cars as good first cars for young drivers (despite the "increased risk" if they get into an accident with an SUV)
Teenage drivers with fresh licenses should be driving older cheaper-to-buy cars.
Unless a teenager (or their parents) are rich, they should be buying an older cheaper car that doesn't require taking out a massive auto loan. In Australia the usual recommendation/good option is something small and Japanese like a Toyota Corolla, Honda Civic, Suzuki Swift, Mitsubishi Lancer, Nissan Pulsar, Mazda 323, Honda Jazz or something like that but in the US the best option may be different.
Any phone that doesn't restrict your ability to run the software (and operating system) of your choice on it is what you should be buying instead of that crApple ifPhail.
If it was an actual device (and not just some schematics and a prototype built on an ARM dev board) I would be recommending the Neo900 as the best option for people wanting a truly open phone. With the Neo900, it will be possible (as far as I am aware) to run a 100% FOSS software stack on the main ARM CPU and have basically complete device functionality including LTE cellular modem, power management/battery charging, phone calls, SMS messages, GPS, WiFi, FM transmitter, FM receiver, camera and bluetooth.
Given how much money the big media companies spend on political donations to both sides of politics in this country I wouldn't be so sure that the Labor party are going to be voting no on this bill.
Not to mention that they are filming the latest Pirates of the Caribbean film right here in sunny Queensland and I can gaurantee that Hollywood is talking to both sides of politics and pointing out just how much money is being injected into the Australian economy by content production and that without strong anti-piracy measures, all that content production (and associated economic benefit) will be in jeopardy.
It worked in New Zealand where they used the Hobbit films as a lever to get the changes to labor laws that they wanted, I see no reason the same wouldn't work here in Australia to get the anti-piracy measures they want.
Why don't the various states that are having this problem offer some money to whichever US drug manufacturer is able to supply them with some Propofol? Make it in a US factory where the EU cant interfere.
Give me a way I can link my smartphone to my prescription sunnies (without compromising their use as sunnies) and I am very much interested (says the guy who has lost many pairs of sunnies over the years and only recently lost yet another pair)
Let me start by saying that I have been using Mozilla (the suite) since the 0.x beta days and I am using SeaMonkey (the successor to the Mozilla Suite) to write this post.
The things I dislike about what Mozilla are doing: 1.The way they are forcing all sorts of new UI onto people without ever considering what its users (both users who have been using for years and those new to Firefox) actually want. 2.The fact that they have become conservative when it comes to supporting new web things. In particular new image formats like mng, jng and webp. It used to be that they would support all these new web things and push the envelope, now they are behind Chrome and even IE in some of these areas. 3.The way they dont care about the corporate market, dont provide official installers that the corporate IT people can use and push to all their machines, dont provide the configuration options the corporate IT people need, dont provide a way for the corporate IT people to block updates except when they are ready to push them locally and dont provide a way for the corporate IT people to turn off all the things (phoning home etc) that the corporate IT people dont want.
Better yet, go take the tracking device and stick it to the underside of a city garbage truck or something. The cops will be sent on a wild goose chase and whoever had the tracking device attached wont get tracked anymore.
I must have written hundreds of lines of code listening to Jimmy Barnes Working Class Man (just to name one of the many songs I like to play when I am knee deep in source code or IDA disassembly or whatever)
1.Are all Android device manufacturers required to include support for it so users can turn it on if they want to (and are willing to accept the resulting performance hit). and 2.Is it still the case that Google is unable to decrypt a device protected by android FDE?
We need jumpers or physical switches that prevent firmware stored in flash (whether it be GPU firmware, BIOS, HDD firmware, network card firmware or whatever) from being overwritten unless you specifically flip that switch.
The answer to fixing this problem is to require scrap metal dealers to be licensed (with strong penalties for anyone who isn't) and to require all transactions to be recorded along with the ID of the seller. Its already done in many jurisdictions for pawn shops (where you need a license to operate one and where sellers have to provide ID when they sell it, why should scrap merchants be any different.
Whats the bet that the "Security Software" they refer to includes those crappy limited trial versions of software from McAfee and Norton, the stuff that is impossible to uninstall and gives you endless nag screens pushing you to give them money? (nag screens that used to be good at getting idiots to part with their money but now thanks to scams and fake anti-virus products and stuff that all their geek friends keep telling them about are more likely to get those same idiots to assume they are bogus and ignore them)
Those things are some of the worst offenders when it comes to bloatware.
GSM (and GSM cryptography) was developed way back when the smartest thing a cellphone could do was to store a few phone numbers and the hardware grunt the system had was minimal.
Also, when GSM was developed, the various intelligence agencies in the NATO countries deliberately wanted the cryptography to be weak in order to make it easier to hack.
No, time to go to open source verified-by-security-audit strongly-encrypted VoIP (the kind that at the very least will require the spooks to put a lot of effort into cracking it so they cant just vacuum it all up like they do now) and secure anonymous distributed crypto-currencies that the feds cant easily track (and cant seize as part of a "random" roadside stop on the interstate)
You dont need to make one, just buy one of the many varieties of metal credit card wallets already on the market that do the job of blocking the cards just fine.
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If ever there was a time for the Americans here to write to their congressman and ask that they support a particular bill, this is the time. I may not be American or know a whole lot about American politics but even I know that this is probably one of the most important bills proposed in Congress in at least a decade.
Cruise control already controls the speed of the car. Adaptive cruise control will drive at whatever speed it needs to drive at based on the distance to the cars in front and behind. Why not extend the adaptive cruise control system so that it will drive no faster than the speed limit (as determined by whatever this system uses) unless it has to drive faster due to the speed of the car behind (i.e. the car behind is going faster than the speed limit and therefore this car has to in order to not get rear-ended).
It could then, like existing cruise control systems, be overridden by the driver if need be (via pressing on the accelerator pedal) but by default it would keep the driver at the speed limit unless it needed to go slower due to the car in front or faster due to the car behind.
If you were a cop and you were sent to an address in response to a 911 call claiming that there was someone at that address with a dangerous weapon, would you walk up to the door and knock politely? I dont think so, you would want to stop the person inside from using any weapons they have on you before they have the chance to react.
Yeah there is a big difference between someone driving, say, a Mitsubishi ASX (basically a lancer on stilts) and someone driving, say, a Holden Colorado 7 (an SUV version of the Australian-market Holden Colorado truck)
Many older Japanese cars like Corollas, Pulsars, Civics etc are VERY reliable and still good choices even today (in terms of the likelihood of things going wrong and needing to be fixed) as long as they haven't been written off (crashed and rebuilt and re-registered) and have been properly maintained.
Such things already exist. Devices that plug into the OBD2 port on a vehicle and monitor/log all the relavent information already exist. Some combine this with GPS tracking (to log where the car is as well as how its being driven).
Plenty of options for parents to monitor how their teenager is driving and whether they are driving safely or not, this just happens to be one actually built into the car (and capable of doing more than just logging as a result)
The roads in Australia are filled with SUVs just as much as they are in the US (and that number seems to be growing all the time based on my observations) and yet people who know what they are talking about (including a family member who has been working in dealerships and selling both new and used cars for decades and now works in management at a dealer) still recommend small fuel efficient Japanese cars as good first cars for young drivers (despite the "increased risk" if they get into an accident with an SUV)
Teenage drivers with fresh licenses should be driving older cheaper-to-buy cars.
Unless a teenager (or their parents) are rich, they should be buying an older cheaper car that doesn't require taking out a massive auto loan. In Australia the usual recommendation/good option is something small and Japanese like a Toyota Corolla, Honda Civic, Suzuki Swift, Mitsubishi Lancer, Nissan Pulsar, Mazda 323, Honda Jazz or something like that but in the US the best option may be different.
Any phone that doesn't restrict your ability to run the software (and operating system) of your choice on it is what you should be buying instead of that crApple ifPhail.
If it was an actual device (and not just some schematics and a prototype built on an ARM dev board) I would be recommending the Neo900 as the best option for people wanting a truly open phone. With the Neo900, it will be possible (as far as I am aware) to run a 100% FOSS software stack on the main ARM CPU and have basically complete device functionality including LTE cellular modem, power management/battery charging, phone calls, SMS messages, GPS, WiFi, FM transmitter, FM receiver, camera and bluetooth.
Given how much money the big media companies spend on political donations to both sides of politics in this country I wouldn't be so sure that the Labor party are going to be voting no on this bill.
Not to mention that they are filming the latest Pirates of the Caribbean film right here in sunny Queensland and I can gaurantee that Hollywood is talking to both sides of politics and pointing out just how much money is being injected into the Australian economy by content production and that without strong anti-piracy measures, all that content production (and associated economic benefit) will be in jeopardy.
It worked in New Zealand where they used the Hobbit films as a lever to get the changes to labor laws that they wanted, I see no reason the same wouldn't work here in Australia to get the anti-piracy measures they want.
Why don't the various states that are having this problem offer some money to whichever US drug manufacturer is able to supply them with some Propofol?
Make it in a US factory where the EU cant interfere.
Give me a way I can link my smartphone to my prescription sunnies (without compromising their use as sunnies) and I am very much interested (says the guy who has lost many pairs of sunnies over the years and only recently lost yet another pair)
Let me start by saying that I have been using Mozilla (the suite) since the 0.x beta days and I am using SeaMonkey (the successor to the Mozilla Suite) to write this post.
The things I dislike about what Mozilla are doing:
1.The way they are forcing all sorts of new UI onto people without ever considering what its users (both users who have been using for years and those new to Firefox) actually want.
2.The fact that they have become conservative when it comes to supporting new web things. In particular new image formats like mng, jng and webp. It used to be that they would support all these new web things and push the envelope, now they are behind Chrome and even IE in some of these areas.
3.The way they dont care about the corporate market, dont provide official installers that the corporate IT people can use and push to all their machines, dont provide the configuration options the corporate IT people need, dont provide a way for the corporate IT people to block updates except when they are ready to push them locally and dont provide a way for the corporate IT people to turn off all the things (phoning home etc) that the corporate IT people dont want.
Better yet, go take the tracking device and stick it to the underside of a city garbage truck or something. The cops will be sent on a wild goose chase and whoever had the tracking device attached wont get tracked anymore.
I must have written hundreds of lines of code listening to Jimmy Barnes Working Class Man (just to name one of the many songs I like to play when I am knee deep in source code or IDA disassembly or whatever)
1.Are all Android device manufacturers required to include support for it so users can turn it on if they want to (and are willing to accept the resulting performance hit).
and 2.Is it still the case that Google is unable to decrypt a device protected by android FDE?
We need jumpers or physical switches that prevent firmware stored in flash (whether it be GPU firmware, BIOS, HDD firmware, network card firmware or whatever) from being overwritten unless you specifically flip that switch.
The answer to fixing this problem is to require scrap metal dealers to be licensed (with strong penalties for anyone who isn't) and to require all transactions to be recorded along with the ID of the seller. Its already done in many jurisdictions for pawn shops (where you need a license to operate one and where sellers have to provide ID when they sell it, why should scrap merchants be any different.
Whats the bet that the "Security Software" they refer to includes those crappy limited trial versions of software from McAfee and Norton, the stuff that is impossible to uninstall and gives you endless nag screens pushing you to give them money? (nag screens that used to be good at getting idiots to part with their money but now thanks to scams and fake anti-virus products and stuff that all their geek friends keep telling them about are more likely to get those same idiots to assume they are bogus and ignore them)
Those things are some of the worst offenders when it comes to bloatware.
I want Bagpipe Hero. Or Saxophone Hero.
GSM (and GSM cryptography) was developed way back when the smartest thing a cellphone could do was to store a few phone numbers and the hardware grunt the system had was minimal.
Also, when GSM was developed, the various intelligence agencies in the NATO countries deliberately wanted the cryptography to be weak in order to make it easier to hack.
Why is the federal government (and its agencies) so scared to allow state and local law enforcement agencies to reveal the use of these devices?
They will find a way to twist the law so that it only applies to the big corps and not the little guy.
No, time to go to open source verified-by-security-audit strongly-encrypted VoIP (the kind that at the very least will require the spooks to put a lot of effort into cracking it so they cant just vacuum it all up like they do now) and secure anonymous distributed crypto-currencies that the feds cant easily track (and cant seize as part of a "random" roadside stop on the interstate)
You dont need to make one, just buy one of the many varieties of metal credit card wallets already on the market that do the job of blocking the cards just fine.