I don't think ethanol and butanol are much different, the energy to grow corn isn't a issue. Both will only be 6-10% when the bacteria are done. So both will require distilling to get useable product, and the same water use, boiling point of butanol is higher, so probably more energy to distill, advantage of butanol is getting from 85% to 100% alcohol is beyond simple boiling, so only e85 cars, ie most new cars can burn ethanol without going to 100% ethanol, which is when ethanol is not economical anymore.
The problem is that powerplant is not next to my house. That electric is produced at 3Â to 9Â/kwhr less than 200 miles away, yet costs 25Â/kwhr at my house. The tank of gas I bought last week, got from a port in Texas 1000 miles to my car, price went from $2 to $2.50 ( plus 50Â in taxes.) I don't know where those costs went, but who cares fuel is just 30% efficient, if electric is 12% efficient, before getting into a vehicle.
>because we don't have limitless gas nor do we have limitless ability to emit noxious fumes either.
Actually we do, ethanol, bio diesiel, paper to butanol are all options. Ethanol for example is much aligned as requiring so much energy to produce, but is a closed carbon cycle, and for E85 (not mixing, that is a mess.) If you just produce E85, that can be done by anyone (not legally in the USA, need a still which can produce alcohol, revenuers don't like.) It is as simple as taking corn (enough corn to produce ~5000 gallons can be produced on 2 acres, and maybe 10 gallons of fuel input) letting it get ripe, add yeast for a week, that you can buy online or at any brew your own shop. The Energy cost is that you need heat to distill (heat to 185F) the ethanol, get that from somewhere green and renewable (say waste heat from a power generation plant, or solar), you have a clean burning closed carbon cycle, dense power source... The only other major issue I can think of is this fuel can be used to drink, and OMG think of the children. (also most new cars are E85 capable, or very close, old vehicles, not so much.)
The problem is battery chemistry is not well understood at the point of what goes wrong with them, and how to predict life, beyond charging, then discharging to measure capacity. Then charge them for install. So any swap strategy with current technology is going to be fraught with the issues discussed above of not knowing how much power you were just given. So it is going to be expensive and wasteful to keep all the batteries at some 90% of a new battery capability. Maybe you can have some lower tier of battery swap where you can get the end of life 60% capable batteries at a lower cost, but your going to have a massive headache and cost of swapping batteries. Seams like your going to need a standard logger charge controller, tamper proof... just begging for tons of fraud to have any chance of pulling this off at any scale.
The difference is in the type of response. If you think it is willed by god, then you spend your resources on church's and prayer, and trust that you will be spared by gods will if your a good observer. Basically just wait for the disaster, and when a few people are spared you praise how it is proof that gods will saved them.
If it is science, you instead figure out what size of quake and frequency could realistically happen and spend the money building safe structures and responses to minimize the disaster, rather than on something completely unrelated to the reality of the situation.
I am guessing you have never spent the night outside in the Desert. I live in the AZ desert, and have a green house for 3 reasons. 1) the birds, rabbits, etc even eat the hot pepper plant northern rabbits wont touch. 2) Cold nights, day to night swings of 30F are the norm, northern plants seam confused by this, and don't grow (but don't die either.) 3) Humidity, normal plants lose way too much humidity without a enclosure. My roof panels auto open at 90 degrees, and the misters turn on at 95 then close up to maintain overnight. #1 seams to apply here, #2, probably be good dual purpose for Nov to March.#3 the moisture should settle out on the way up as it gets cooled. Thus if captured would be available. However I would guess the cooling affect of the water down low, would reduce the efficiency, and thus not be desired.
>everything can tie into MS being evil on Slashdot It is a shame, what's next, that someone will point out how inferior they are to Apple? Since Disney's Steve Jobs did a better job at buying off congress critters and sooner, therefore Gates is just copying his achievements once again. (oh darn, now all I need is a Godwins law to kick in.)
>all this does is check against criminal records more efficiently. apart from possible false positives, what's wrong with that?
exactly, false positives. I am OK with it being used to confirm identities. IE person claims to be Joe Smith, check against Joe Smith only, fine. But it is the guaranteed outcome of being search against a database without checks and balances, for no reason that scares me. IE I am scanned, and records get swapped with a bad guy, then scanned at airport and locked up for no other reason. Or crappy scanner at border check, grabs something wrong, now I must prove my innocence. Or like my neighbor, who's wife left him for a Border Patrol officer, and while going through custody, he somehow gets flagged. Any database without proper checks and balances (like the no fly list) shouldn't be use-able without a warrant. A database not requiring a warrant (good example would be the credit rating services) should have all data available to be validated by those in the database, and correctable without arrest.
>None of the three you listed were considered criminals. Galileo was tried and convicted of heresy, and spent the last 10 years of his life under house arrest. Ann Frank, once caught was essentially sentenced to death. MLK wasn't ever locked up by those in power (to my knowledge) but saying he was considered a criminal at the time, doesn't seam like too much of a stretch.
>not to be (mis)treated by two companies run by Steves. Don't forget both of Steve Job's companies, he runs both Disney and Apple. Most everyone in USA was screwed over By Steve Job's Disney, much fewer people by Apple and MSFT combined.
>2- The police aren't the Army. Bullshit, the swat teams are considered police everywhere I have lived. >3- Ridiculous, and you know it. I have personally abused the policy of Police calling in all reports, for me to get personal information of others twice. Once I had caught the license plate of a gang member who fucked with my car. I asked to sit in the Police car when they called in the report, So the name and address were called back to the officers and I wrote it down and went to visit the ass later. Also I had a Police scanner and called in another asshole who threw shit at me on my bicycle, I never found the car in the apt complex (must have moved), but it gave me a chance. Neither time were my (intended) actions legit, but justified to me at the time.
All of my concerns are easily addressed, none are overriding reasons to say never. But are legit concerns to not say "always OK."
> Personally, I've never heard a legitimate reason for why someone shouldn't be able to record police/public interactions.
Legitimate reasons:
1) video/audio taken out of context, could be very damaging even during a legitimate use of force. They don't want to waste department resources defending everything someone could be offended by that a officer does.
2) Recon by the bad guys. Having videos of every officers actions, would allow them to be prepared to attack weaknesses in the officers daily routines.
3) Official officer Radio/PC traffic often have private citizens information that should often be protected. A blanket law stating you can record all officer actions would mean that when I get placed in a police car, I could legally plant a wire/monitor and leave it behind. Thereafter if I publish that information would make it very difficult to protect victim identities, etc that officers encounter doing official work, etc that should be protected.
All that said, I think none of the issues is significant enough that it should be a cause to stop a person from recording anything, assuming the person is present in person (or a security cam that just happens to catch.) But I do think it would be endangering our police officers to have no recourse for stopping the public release of some of the above (I personally would love to have a GPS database of all polices current locations, but not so much so that I think it should be publicly available to all.)
I don't know, if you have several gyro's around the car that could transfer energy this quickly, you could make a 4x4 with 6' of ground clearance, and a 6' wheelbase, that could still cornered like a go cart without rolling. Transfer the energy from the clockwise turning Gyro to the Counter clockwise one while turning left, swap for right turns. You could maintain equal force on every tire, every turn... Instead of having that dead-weight battery making turning more difficult, and accidents more likely...
but it wasn't illegal to break monopoly specific laws, before they became a monopoly. Probably up until they took out netscape in the late 90's, then started their decline (or at least peak) in 2000 I wouldn't have called any of their tactics illegal. Before then they bought out the winning tech companies, and extended them... Only after their stock stagnated did they then get too aggressive and start bending the laws, trying to stay on top. But getting to the top was just good business (AFAIK) and some luck combined with skillful marketing along the way.
Post says they were using Cisco phones, cisco phones use a tftp server to get the configs, based off of mac address. I setup 25 phones, all multi line, used the "trixbox" install of asterisk, that had the tftp server, web interface, and everything all tied together as a single install. With Trixbox, just use the web interface it does all of this for you. The only difficult part was, updating the Cisco phones to the sip image, so many of the Cisco firmwares were screwed up and wouldn't allow installing from certain versions to others, so I would have to do several firmware updates... but only to get a new phone to the SIP firmware.
I did try to find a better answer for the amount stored locally, and haven't found a "time frame." Clearly it is still active enough to need cooling, so not able to be buried without cooling yet. Clearly with the half life of the last of the high energy elements being in the 6-10 years, at 40 years it has gone through 4-7 half lives, is that getting close to safe? Probably a good lesson here, that at least the spent fuel needs storage that is not in the ring of fire...
>They'd still need to subpoena the ISP Correct, according to wikipedia, a search warrant has to detail what is to be searched for and how. In the RIAA case, the response was made clear to the judge The RIAA was to "go after" the named. Clearly (to the judge anyway) the direct result from the subpoena wasn't going to be actionable, so did the correct thing and denied it. It is not so clear in the porn case, but I assume a judge accepted the warrant to get the details from the ISP, if that warrant was to obtain more info to investigate, then that judge was correct (In my opinion) to further the investigation by having the ISP supply details (and to gather related data) for the police to further a investigation into a crime. The judge should have known enough info didn't yet exist to name a suspect yet and deny any arrest warrant based solely on IP address. At most, they could have allowed the police a warrant to seize the PC/router, based on the IP address, but not arrest a specific person. If the police decided upon seeing a computer in the house, this allowed them to go from search to arrest, then the Police deserve the blame not the judge.
>Surely the police raided the right people, The Police destroyed a live lead by going in without doing due diligence, luckily in this case, the person they were after wasn't scared off and kept up the same activities at different wireless AP's in the same area. A slightly smarter crock would have stopped/moved away because they went in guns first and proclaimed victory immediately, not sending in the nerds first to catch the correct person. Appears after they bungled this, then the Police got scientists to track the perp down the correct way, tracking actual illegal activity (but the only thing likely learned from this raid, was that the Police didn't have a clue, and needed better technicians.)
>What if you can no longer get a warrant based on an IP?
This is only saying a business can't subpoena private details of another private party on IP alone, I don't know how that would apply to a warrant. I assume the RIAA, could still use IP data to have a investigation opened by the police, and they could get a further search warrant that could allow a address given to the police... I would think a warrant for the address to be given to police would have a lower burden than for a private party. I hope it was learned to not use IP alone as a reason to grant a smash and grab raid warrant, but only to get contact information to continue the investigation perhaps by contacting the owner of equipment, to gather more evidence. They probably could have caught the actual perv, had they quietly contacted the home owner, and started logging that homeowners Wifi info... Once they smashed the innocent owners place in, shutting down the network, announcing to everyone within 100* the maximum wifi range they had "caught the perv". I suspect it was too late then to gather any more data on the actual perp.
But encryption doesn't matter when someone also steals the encryption algorithm and keys.
I am assuming people think Sony should have hashed the passwords. The only reason to store a actual representation of your password (encrypted or not), is if you want to be able to have people recover their same password. Most services make you create a new one, thus no need to store the old one, just a hash of the old one.
IE If I give you the password hash file, algorithm, and keys (all but the hash are open sourced) from my linux passwd file, you cant find out my exact password from it. given enough time and CPU you can technically narrow it down to a few hundred passwords, but no 1:1 hash->password method exists, only password->hash. When entering the password, the hash is calculated and compared, not the actual password. This is more secure, because a administrator would have access to the hash file, but having a copy of that does him no good, if he looses his admin rights, since they can't login to the network with a hash. Storing plain text password would require changing all admins passwords to re-secure a network after any breach in trust.
>The only thing that was different was that the user had access to the data that "the man" had all along.
US authorities, may be allowed legally, with subpoena, get your US records today, but the Iphone is a international phone. Also no subpoena is currently needed when crossing into the US to take your phone/computer data. So it is very believable someone who went to someplace like Cuba and turned on their Iphone. It could be a real pain to have USBP having every location someones phone has been in the past year, and having to explain/defend your travels... Of course it is also very plausible entering other countries they might also take this data, and also make your life miserable as well. (IE why were you in Amsterdam, not on your passport, lets check every bag now...)
I suppose if you say no to the request then they would not be able to slurp data off of your phone without a court order.
It appears the ACLU asked the department to confirm that was the rule, they wont. I have been pulled over for 10 MPH over the speed-limit, and had my car searched, items taken, and my pockets cleaned out without any permission (other than I opened my door to get out when the officer asked me to.) When asked, the officers response was more or less, "so sue me." but I can't they were protected by a superior ruling from a judge that no warrant was required, because they first saw a "weapon" (softball bat well out of my reach). The extent of reaction I had available, was I could get the items excluded with the help of a lawyer from court (but the charges were dropped immediately after I requested a jury trial, no items were ever returned to me.) Basically you will know you lost control of your cell phone, you wont see that he opened up the plastic bag your items went into, and slurped all from your phone. You will have no proof to do any legal recourse... (FYI my case was one where I had the same first and last name of a convicted felon this officer had previously had interactions with, even though the other was 2' shorter, and 100pounds lighter than me.)
Statistically speaking, you're more likely to be in a wreck when you are one of those distracted, inhibited, tired, drivers.
I agree, and understand that risk. Through practice and planning I will be safer than without practice and planning and having the safety features, so can justify to myself with that reasoning (even if it would be safer doing both.) Also I really prefer the systems I can currently work on, and would really like to see more of these advanced systems become more open with the software and logic, monitoring, etc. Maybe then (like the retro EFI I am putting on my rebuild project) I would feel more comfortable putting that tech into my ride of choice.
I agree to avoiding anything that make a system more complicated without a clear advantage, is to be avoided. I will say each system does have it's application, for instance a modern car that comes with Automatic, and Cruise control has to have a throttle position sensor, and a throttle actuator, adding in a throttle cable, and a linkage to tie both together is adding unnecessary complication (IMHO.) Of course a Diesel with EFI (what I drive) their is no reason for any mechanical linkage from the throttle anyway, and it works great. Traction control, ABS systems can be a clear advantage in the condition of a un-alert driver (tired, distracted, inhibited, poor reactions...) these systems are then savers. Not for me in general, I went out of my way to find a vehicle without as many of those as possible, then again I take my vehicles to auto-crosses, etc and learn to drive in those situations. But they have their applications.
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I don't think ethanol and butanol are much different, the energy to grow corn isn't a issue. Both will only be 6-10% when the bacteria are done. So both will require distilling to get useable product, and the same water use, boiling point of butanol is higher, so probably more energy to distill, advantage of butanol is getting from 85% to 100% alcohol is beyond simple boiling, so only e85 cars, ie most new cars can burn ethanol without going to 100% ethanol, which is when ethanol is not economical anymore.
The problem is that powerplant is not next to my house. That electric is produced at 3Â to 9Â /kwhr less than 200 miles away, yet costs 25Â /kwhr at my house. The tank of gas I bought last week, got from a port in Texas 1000 miles to my car, price went from $2 to $2.50 ( plus 50Â in taxes.) I don't know where those costs went, but who cares fuel is just 30% efficient, if electric is 12% efficient, before getting into a vehicle.
>because we don't have limitless gas nor do we have limitless ability to emit noxious fumes either.
Actually we do, ethanol, bio diesiel, paper to butanol are all options. Ethanol for example is much aligned as requiring so much energy to produce, but is a closed carbon cycle, and for E85 (not mixing, that is a mess.) If you just produce E85, that can be done by anyone (not legally in the USA, need a still which can produce alcohol, revenuers don't like.) It is as simple as taking corn (enough corn to produce ~5000 gallons can be produced on 2 acres, and maybe 10 gallons of fuel input) letting it get ripe, add yeast for a week, that you can buy online or at any brew your own shop. The Energy cost is that you need heat to distill (heat to 185F) the ethanol, get that from somewhere green and renewable (say waste heat from a power generation plant, or solar), you have a clean burning closed carbon cycle, dense power source... The only other major issue I can think of is this fuel can be used to drink, and OMG think of the children. (also most new cars are E85 capable, or very close, old vehicles, not so much.)
The problem is battery chemistry is not well understood at the point of what goes wrong with them, and how to predict life, beyond charging, then discharging to measure capacity. Then charge them for install. So any swap strategy with current technology is going to be fraught with the issues discussed above of not knowing how much power you were just given. So it is going to be expensive and wasteful to keep all the batteries at some 90% of a new battery capability. Maybe you can have some lower tier of battery swap where you can get the end of life 60% capable batteries at a lower cost, but your going to have a massive headache and cost of swapping batteries. Seams like your going to need a standard logger charge controller, tamper proof... just begging for tons of fraud to have any chance of pulling this off at any scale.
>Tectonic movement willed by God.
The difference is in the type of response. If you think it is willed by god, then you spend your resources on church's and prayer, and trust that you will be spared by gods will if your a good observer. Basically just wait for the disaster, and when a few people are spared you praise how it is proof that gods will saved them.
If it is science, you instead figure out what size of quake and frequency could realistically happen and spend the money building safe structures and responses to minimize the disaster, rather than on something completely unrelated to the reality of the situation.
I am guessing you have never spent the night outside in the Desert.
I live in the AZ desert, and have a green house for 3 reasons. 1) the birds, rabbits, etc even eat the hot pepper plant northern rabbits wont touch. 2) Cold nights, day to night swings of 30F are the norm, northern plants seam confused by this, and don't grow (but don't die either.) 3) Humidity, normal plants lose way too much humidity without a enclosure. My roof panels auto open at 90 degrees, and the misters turn on at 95 then close up to maintain overnight.
#1 seams to apply here, #2, probably be good dual purpose for Nov to March.#3 the moisture should settle out on the way up as it gets cooled. Thus if captured would be available. However I would guess the cooling affect of the water down low, would reduce the efficiency, and thus not be desired.
>everything can tie into MS being evil on Slashdot
It is a shame, what's next, that someone will point out how inferior they are to Apple? Since Disney's Steve Jobs did a better job at buying off congress critters and sooner, therefore Gates is just copying his achievements once again. (oh darn, now all I need is a Godwins law to kick in.)
>all this does is check against criminal records more efficiently. apart from possible false positives, what's wrong with that?
exactly, false positives. I am OK with it being used to confirm identities. IE person claims to be Joe Smith, check against Joe Smith only, fine. But it is the guaranteed outcome of being search against a database without checks and balances, for no reason that scares me. IE I am scanned, and records get swapped with a bad guy, then scanned at airport and locked up for no other reason. Or crappy scanner at border check, grabs something wrong, now I must prove my innocence. Or like my neighbor, who's wife left him for a Border Patrol officer, and while going through custody, he somehow gets flagged. Any database without proper checks and balances (like the no fly list) shouldn't be use-able without a warrant. A database not requiring a warrant (good example would be the credit rating services) should have all data available to be validated by those in the database, and correctable without arrest.
>None of the three you listed were considered criminals.
Galileo was tried and convicted of heresy, and spent the last 10 years of his life under house arrest. Ann Frank, once caught was essentially sentenced to death. MLK wasn't ever locked up by those in power (to my knowledge) but saying he was considered a criminal at the time, doesn't seam like too much of a stretch.
>not to be (mis)treated by two companies run by Steves.
Don't forget both of Steve Job's companies, he runs both Disney and Apple. Most everyone in USA was screwed over By Steve Job's Disney, much fewer people by Apple and MSFT combined.
>2- The police aren't the Army.
Bullshit, the swat teams are considered police everywhere I have lived.
>3- Ridiculous, and you know it.
I have personally abused the policy of Police calling in all reports, for me to get personal information of others twice. Once I had caught the license plate of a gang member who fucked with my car. I asked to sit in the Police car when they called in the report, So the name and address were called back to the officers and I wrote it down and went to visit the ass later. Also I had a Police scanner and called in another asshole who threw shit at me on my bicycle, I never found the car in the apt complex (must have moved), but it gave me a chance. Neither time were my (intended) actions legit, but justified to me at the time.
All of my concerns are easily addressed, none are overriding reasons to say never. But are legit concerns to not say "always OK."
> Personally, I've never heard a legitimate reason for why someone shouldn't be able to record police/public interactions.
Legitimate reasons:
1) video/audio taken out of context, could be very damaging even during a legitimate use of force. They don't want to waste department resources defending everything someone could be offended by that a officer does.
2) Recon by the bad guys. Having videos of every officers actions, would allow them to be prepared to attack weaknesses in the officers daily routines.
3) Official officer Radio/PC traffic often have private citizens information that should often be protected. A blanket law stating you can record all officer actions would mean that when I get placed in a police car, I could legally plant a wire/monitor and leave it behind. Thereafter if I publish that information would make it very difficult to protect victim identities, etc that officers encounter doing official work, etc that should be protected.
All that said, I think none of the issues is significant enough that it should be a cause to stop a person from recording anything, assuming the person is present in person (or a security cam that just happens to catch.) But I do think it would be endangering our police officers to have no recourse for stopping the public release of some of the above (I personally would love to have a GPS database of all polices current locations, but not so much so that I think it should be publicly available to all.)
I don't know, if you have several gyro's around the car that could transfer energy this quickly, you could make a 4x4 with 6' of ground clearance, and a 6' wheelbase, that could still cornered like a go cart without rolling. Transfer the energy from the clockwise turning Gyro to the Counter clockwise one while turning left, swap for right turns. You could maintain equal force on every tire, every turn... Instead of having that dead-weight battery making turning more difficult, and accidents more likely...
but it wasn't illegal to break monopoly specific laws, before they became a monopoly. Probably up until they took out netscape in the late 90's, then started their decline (or at least peak) in 2000 I wouldn't have called any of their tactics illegal. Before then they bought out the winning tech companies, and extended them... Only after their stock stagnated did they then get too aggressive and start bending the laws, trying to stay on top. But getting to the top was just good business (AFAIK) and some luck combined with skillful marketing along the way.
Post says they were using Cisco phones, cisco phones use a tftp server to get the configs, based off of mac address. I setup 25 phones, all multi line, used the "trixbox" install of asterisk, that had the tftp server, web interface, and everything all tied together as a single install. With Trixbox, just use the web interface it does all of this for you. The only difficult part was, updating the Cisco phones to the sip image, so many of the Cisco firmwares were screwed up and wouldn't allow installing from certain versions to others, so I would have to do several firmware updates... but only to get a new phone to the SIP firmware.
I did try to find a better answer for the amount stored locally, and haven't found a "time frame." Clearly it is still active enough to need cooling, so not able to be buried without cooling yet. Clearly with the half life of the last of the high energy elements being in the 6-10 years, at 40 years it has gone through 4-7 half lives, is that getting close to safe? Probably a good lesson here, that at least the spent fuel needs storage that is not in the ring of fire...
>They'd still need to subpoena the ISP
Correct, according to wikipedia, a search warrant has to detail what is to be searched for and how. In the RIAA case, the response was made clear to the judge The RIAA was to "go after" the named. Clearly (to the judge anyway) the direct result from the subpoena wasn't going to be actionable, so did the correct thing and denied it. It is not so clear in the porn case, but I assume a judge accepted the warrant to get the details from the ISP, if that warrant was to obtain more info to investigate, then that judge was correct (In my opinion) to further the investigation by having the ISP supply details (and to gather related data) for the police to further a investigation into a crime. The judge should have known enough info didn't yet exist to name a suspect yet and deny any arrest warrant based solely on IP address. At most, they could have allowed the police a warrant to seize the PC/router, based on the IP address, but not arrest a specific person. If the police decided upon seeing a computer in the house, this allowed them to go from search to arrest, then the Police deserve the blame not the judge.
>Surely the police raided the right people,
The Police destroyed a live lead by going in without doing due diligence, luckily in this case, the person they were after wasn't scared off and kept up the same activities at different wireless AP's in the same area. A slightly smarter crock would have stopped/moved away because they went in guns first and proclaimed victory immediately, not sending in the nerds first to catch the correct person. Appears after they bungled this, then the Police got scientists to track the perp down the correct way, tracking actual illegal activity (but the only thing likely learned from this raid, was that the Police didn't have a clue, and needed better technicians.)
>What if you can no longer get a warrant based on an IP?
This is only saying a business can't subpoena private details of another private party on IP alone, I don't know how that would apply to a warrant. I assume the RIAA, could still use IP data to have a investigation opened by the police, and they could get a further search warrant that could allow a address given to the police... I would think a warrant for the address to be given to police would have a lower burden than for a private party. I hope it was learned to not use IP alone as a reason to grant a smash and grab raid warrant, but only to get contact information to continue the investigation perhaps by contacting the owner of equipment, to gather more evidence. They probably could have caught the actual perv, had they quietly contacted the home owner, and started logging that homeowners Wifi info... Once they smashed the innocent owners place in, shutting down the network, announcing to everyone within 100* the maximum wifi range they had "caught the perv". I suspect it was too late then to gather any more data on the actual perp.
But encryption doesn't matter when someone also steals the encryption algorithm and keys.
I am assuming people think Sony should have hashed the passwords. The only reason to store a actual representation of your password (encrypted or not), is if you want to be able to have people recover their same password. Most services make you create a new one, thus no need to store the old one, just a hash of the old one.
IE If I give you the password hash file, algorithm, and keys (all but the hash are open sourced) from my linux passwd file, you cant find out my exact password from it. given enough time and CPU you can technically narrow it down to a few hundred passwords, but no 1:1 hash->password method exists, only password->hash. When entering the password, the hash is calculated and compared, not the actual password. This is more secure, because a administrator would have access to the hash file, but having a copy of that does him no good, if he looses his admin rights, since they can't login to the network with a hash. Storing plain text password would require changing all admins passwords to re-secure a network after any breach in trust.
>The only thing that was different was that the user had access to the data that "the man" had all along.
US authorities, may be allowed legally, with subpoena, get your US records today, but the Iphone is a international phone. Also no subpoena is currently needed when crossing into the US to take your phone/computer data. So it is very believable someone who went to someplace like Cuba and turned on their Iphone. It could be a real pain to have USBP having every location someones phone has been in the past year, and having to explain/defend your travels...
Of course it is also very plausible entering other countries they might also take this data, and also make your life miserable as well. (IE why were you in Amsterdam, not on your passport, lets check every bag now...)
I suppose if you say no to the request then they would not be able to slurp data off of your phone without a court order.
It appears the ACLU asked the department to confirm that was the rule, they wont. I have been pulled over for 10 MPH over the speed-limit, and had my car searched, items taken, and my pockets cleaned out without any permission (other than I opened my door to get out when the officer asked me to.) When asked, the officers response was more or less, "so sue me." but I can't they were protected by a superior ruling from a judge that no warrant was required, because they first saw a "weapon" (softball bat well out of my reach). The extent of reaction I had available, was I could get the items excluded with the help of a lawyer from court (but the charges were dropped immediately after I requested a jury trial, no items were ever returned to me.)
Basically you will know you lost control of your cell phone, you wont see that he opened up the plastic bag your items went into, and slurped all from your phone. You will have no proof to do any legal recourse... (FYI my case was one where I had the same first and last name of a convicted felon this officer had previously had interactions with, even though the other was 2' shorter, and 100pounds lighter than me.)
Statistically speaking, you're more likely to be in a wreck when you are one of those distracted, inhibited, tired, drivers.
I agree, and understand that risk. Through practice and planning I will be safer than without practice and planning and having the safety features, so can justify to myself with that reasoning (even if it would be safer doing both.) Also I really prefer the systems I can currently work on, and would really like to see more of these advanced systems become more open with the software and logic, monitoring, etc. Maybe then (like the retro EFI I am putting on my rebuild project) I would feel more comfortable putting that tech into my ride of choice.
I agree to avoiding anything that make a system more complicated without a clear advantage, is to be avoided. I will say each system does have it's application, for instance a modern car that comes with Automatic, and Cruise control has to have a throttle position sensor, and a throttle actuator, adding in a throttle cable, and a linkage to tie both together is adding unnecessary complication (IMHO.) Of course a Diesel with EFI (what I drive) their is no reason for any mechanical linkage from the throttle anyway, and it works great.
Traction control, ABS systems can be a clear advantage in the condition of a un-alert driver (tired, distracted, inhibited, poor reactions...) these systems are then savers. Not for me in general, I went out of my way to find a vehicle without as many of those as possible, then again I take my vehicles to auto-crosses, etc and learn to drive in those situations. But they have their applications.
Great, new cars will be able to go over current speed bumps without notice, so logically they will double the speed bump size...