It's unlikely those cars would all get busted in the same lot unless the drivers noticed. Chances are the drivers wouldn't notice, the cars would disperse and would end up getting stopped one by one over the next few weeks/months. The police would have no idea what caused this, and the criminals who did it would have pulled a prank but not really gained anything.
Travelling to work several hours early and leaving several hours late is not practical, you end up having no time for yourself and/or no sleep. If your sole purpose in existence is to work then sure, most of us have other things we want to do.
There is already an economic interest in travel during off-peak times... Your time is not free, you burn more fuel if your sitting in slow traffic for a long period of time, peak tickets on trains etc cost more. People already have reasons to work flexible hours, and many will choose a lower salary in exchange for more flexible conditions. Many companies are simply not allowing more flexible conditions, and are forcing people to travel at peak times which causes all the problems.
And then already congested cities are encouraging the constructions of more office space in the congested areas, further compounding the problem.
Frequently you have updates which are shown as installed, but manual checks reveal they aren't installed fully or correctly... Take a large network with WSUS updating everything where wsus reports everything is up to date, and do an authenticated patch audit with a tool like nessus (which manually checks the files and doesnt rely on the windows update apis), you'll get discrepancies.
The TT is a smaller vehicle than an A4... Although modern cars also carry a lot more weight around than older ones, which offsets some of the efficiency gains made with the engines and drivetrain.
But the cost difference to purchase a 2000 TT vs a 2017 A4 is quite high, and a 2000 model car will have already suffered most of its depreciation. You'd have to drive quite a lot for the fuel cost to exceed the difference in purchase cost.
Most delivery services already have a gps-enabled device which is used to track the driver's location as well as scan packages etc. Having an extra gps tracker on the license plate is not terribly useful. Some delivery services let you track their driver on a map as he delivers packages to various other places on his way to you, it's quite interesting to see the routes they take and gives you a reasonable estimate of when they will show up with your delivery. Better than sitting around all day waiting for a delivery that could come anywhere within a 16 hour window.
The plate is just an excuse, the plate would work just fine without GPS and most cars already have GPS anyway. Having GPS for navigation is a far more compelling reason to put GPS into a car, as it serves an extremely useful purpose for most people unless you never drive to places you're not familiar with.
You don't steal plates from another vehicle, you clone them - then the owner of the other vehicle has no idea it's happened unless you do something that attracts attention like getting issued with a ticket that's sent to their registered address.
If you're going to do something illegal with a vehicle, you pick an extremely common make and model, and when you clone someone else's plates you find another vehicle which is the same as the one you have.
It's not difficult, and many criminals are already using these strategies. I know various people who have had their license plates cloned, and then been issued with traffic tickets in locations they've never visited.
Most people would love to drive outside of peak hours if given the chance, but most of those people are forced by their employers to drive during peak hours. Taxing them more during peak hours will just be further punishment and won't do anything to ease congestion. If you tackle the reason why people travel at peak times, then you will make a difference to congestion.
But as with any technology, this can and will be hacked... Like the revolving number plates james bond had, but more flexible. Have the GPS report a false location, have the license plate blank out or display a false number in the presence of traffic cameras or when speeding, but display a legit plate number when driving at the speed limit.
Not sure how this would help with online vehicle registration, do you actually have to go and buy physical plates? In most countries the plate is just an identifier which remains with the vehicle and the licensing is handled separately.
It's not running on the NES any more than it's running on the tv set used to display the output... The NES is merely being used as an intermediate output device, the actual game is running on the raspberry pi.
Buskers are not leeches, they provide entertainment. It's no different to you attending a concert, or listening to the radio. If you like the performance you can make a donation, if you don't like it you can ignore it.
I do however totally agree on the leeches who tell you some bullshit story in an attempt to get free cash from you. Most of the ones that claim to be homeless and hungry will refuse food if you offer it to them, they only want cash.
I've offered perfectly good recently bought and unopened food to beggars claiming to be hungry, and most of them have refused it. If they were truly homeless and hungry they would happily accept food even if it wasn't very fresh or clean.
It depends on the performed... I don't like being approached and harassed, not only when i walk down the street but also in my own home. However most of these street performers don't harass anyone, they sit in one location and perform, you are free to walk around and ignore them, or you can choose to stop and watch. Some of them are good, some of them suck, but it's no different than a bar or shop which has music or video playing in the window.
If they passively perform and are good i will happily give them money sometimes... If they aggressively approach me demanding money, disturbing my day or intentionally blocking my path they will get nothing but a hostile stare from me. This applies not only to buskers, but anyone trying to get something from me either for free or in exchange for something.
If your goods are on display and i like the look of them and/or ask about them thats great, if you aggressively try to sell to me i'm not interested.
Why do you need to use the latest version just for playing games? Find a stable version and stick to it, use it only for gaming and nothing else. That way you reduce the chance of background cruft or updates breaking or slowing your games.
My work requires that i get various tasks done, how i achieve them doesn't matter so long as they get done. If they are performed more efficiently using Linux then that's where they are performed. If you're being forced to use tools which make your work inefficient then you should raise it as a problem, or consider moving jobs.
People who work on farms can generally afford to live near a farm and get to work easily and quickly without stress, many people cannot afford to live near the business district of a major city and are faced with a long commute down congested routes with thousands of other commuters travelling to the same area at the same time. Commuting time and cost of property within commuting distance are both significant problems for most office workers, and most office work these days is done on computer and doesn't need to be in any specific location.
Depends on the individual... The idea of going to a shared workspace which is close to where you live instead of an office which is far away will appeal to some.
I don't mind going to an office occasionally, what i dislike is the discomfort and timewasting of travel, if i could walk 10 mins to a nearby office i would go there often by choice but as it stands a 1.5hr each way commute in great discomfort on a crowded train means i work from home 99% of the time.
Some people don't like working from home, they don't like working alone, don't have proper facilities/space at home, or they cant concentrate due to distractions. Most of these people would benefit from a shorter travel time.
Being able to live further away from the city is also a benefit, properties are bigger and cheaper.
It's not only the travel expenses, but the location expenses... There are lots of very cheap places to live, which are cheap because they are far from most workplaces which makes commuting impractical. Anywhere that's within daily commute distance of major cities is much more expensive. Many people would happily accept a lower salary if it also meant significantly lower costs for them, resulting in a higher overall standard of living.
Yes, that's the whole point that people seem to be missing.. They're not advocating that a single company open branch offices all over the place for their staff. They're advocating remote work, while also promoting shared working spaces where multiple employees from different companies can go and have a decent working environment without having to waste a long time travelling.
Working from home doesn't suit everyone for various reasons... Some people don't have the space (although this is often because of their commute forcing them to have a smaller more expensive place to live), some can't concentrate at home, some like the daily social aspect of meeting colleagues...
I hated travelling 1.5hrs each way per day to a central location, it was a colossal waste of my time and money, but i would happily do a 5-10 minute walk.
The reason the value of property decreases as you get further out is because workplaces are centralised and people want to minimise the amount of time they waste travelling. If workplaces were more distributed, people would have more freedom to decide where they wanted to live, instead of being forced to choose between cramped and expensive city apartment or long arduous commutes.
If you have users working from home, you can downsize your expensive downtown office and make significant savings that way. The idea isn't to build your own facilities all over the place, its to have shared facilities where people can go to do their remote work which are close to where they live for those who for whatever reason can't work from their home.
For most use cases, a change to linux will be a minor adjustment to the UI - if they even notice at all, and depending on which UI they were using previously, and which UI you choose to run on top of linux.
There are also significant differences between windows xp/7/8/10, as well as various applications they might have been using, switching to a newer version of windows and msoffice can be as big of a change for many users as switching to linux.
Most of those users are probably already using linux in one form or another (chromeos, android, embedded).
Most users don't actually care what they're running, and will use whatever they're given. They will complain about change - whatever the change might be, and after a while they'll get used to it and get on with their jobs.
Even if there's a firmware backdoor, it depends on how it interacts with the running OS... If it's totally independent then it can still do its thing, but then it's somewhat limited in what exactly it can do. If it's aware of the OS then it can be far more effective, but is also likely to break if the OS is significantly changed.
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It's unlikely those cars would all get busted in the same lot unless the drivers noticed. Chances are the drivers wouldn't notice, the cars would disperse and would end up getting stopped one by one over the next few weeks/months. The police would have no idea what caused this, and the criminals who did it would have pulled a prank but not really gained anything.
Travelling to work several hours early and leaving several hours late is not practical, you end up having no time for yourself and/or no sleep. If your sole purpose in existence is to work then sure, most of us have other things we want to do.
There is already an economic interest in travel during off-peak times...
Your time is not free, you burn more fuel if your sitting in slow traffic for a long period of time, peak tickets on trains etc cost more. People already have reasons to work flexible hours, and many will choose a lower salary in exchange for more flexible conditions. Many companies are simply not allowing more flexible conditions, and are forcing people to travel at peak times which causes all the problems.
And then already congested cities are encouraging the constructions of more office space in the congested areas, further compounding the problem.
Frequently you have updates which are shown as installed, but manual checks reveal they aren't installed fully or correctly...
Take a large network with WSUS updating everything where wsus reports everything is up to date, and do an authenticated patch audit with a tool like nessus (which manually checks the files and doesnt rely on the windows update apis), you'll get discrepancies.
The TT is a smaller vehicle than an A4...
Although modern cars also carry a lot more weight around than older ones, which offsets some of the efficiency gains made with the engines and drivetrain.
But the cost difference to purchase a 2000 TT vs a 2017 A4 is quite high, and a 2000 model car will have already suffered most of its depreciation. You'd have to drive quite a lot for the fuel cost to exceed the difference in purchase cost.
Most delivery services already have a gps-enabled device which is used to track the driver's location as well as scan packages etc. Having an extra gps tracker on the license plate is not terribly useful.
Some delivery services let you track their driver on a map as he delivers packages to various other places on his way to you, it's quite interesting to see the routes they take and gives you a reasonable estimate of when they will show up with your delivery. Better than sitting around all day waiting for a delivery that could come anywhere within a 16 hour window.
The plate is just an excuse, the plate would work just fine without GPS and most cars already have GPS anyway.
Having GPS for navigation is a far more compelling reason to put GPS into a car, as it serves an extremely useful purpose for most people unless you never drive to places you're not familiar with.
You don't steal plates from another vehicle, you clone them - then the owner of the other vehicle has no idea it's happened unless you do something that attracts attention like getting issued with a ticket that's sent to their registered address.
If you're going to do something illegal with a vehicle, you pick an extremely common make and model, and when you clone someone else's plates you find another vehicle which is the same as the one you have.
It's not difficult, and many criminals are already using these strategies. I know various people who have had their license plates cloned, and then been issued with traffic tickets in locations they've never visited.
Most people would love to drive outside of peak hours if given the chance, but most of those people are forced by their employers to drive during peak hours. Taxing them more during peak hours will just be further punishment and won't do anything to ease congestion.
If you tackle the reason why people travel at peak times, then you will make a difference to congestion.
But as with any technology, this can and will be hacked...
Like the revolving number plates james bond had, but more flexible.
Have the GPS report a false location, have the license plate blank out or display a false number in the presence of traffic cameras or when speeding, but display a legit plate number when driving at the speed limit.
Not sure how this would help with online vehicle registration, do you actually have to go and buy physical plates? In most countries the plate is just an identifier which remains with the vehicle and the licensing is handled separately.
It's not running on the NES any more than it's running on the tv set used to display the output...
The NES is merely being used as an intermediate output device, the actual game is running on the raspberry pi.
If you're within 4 inches of the drive you could use a hammer, or just unplug the power... Works against SSDs too!
Yes that's a good point, they should choose a location that doesn't hinder the flow of pedestrians.
Otherwise it's no problem.
Buskers are not leeches, they provide entertainment. It's no different to you attending a concert, or listening to the radio. If you like the performance you can make a donation, if you don't like it you can ignore it.
I do however totally agree on the leeches who tell you some bullshit story in an attempt to get free cash from you. Most of the ones that claim to be homeless and hungry will refuse food if you offer it to them, they only want cash.
I've offered perfectly good recently bought and unopened food to beggars claiming to be hungry, and most of them have refused it. If they were truly homeless and hungry they would happily accept food even if it wasn't very fresh or clean.
It depends on the performed...
I don't like being approached and harassed, not only when i walk down the street but also in my own home.
However most of these street performers don't harass anyone, they sit in one location and perform, you are free to walk around and ignore them, or you can choose to stop and watch. Some of them are good, some of them suck, but it's no different than a bar or shop which has music or video playing in the window.
If they passively perform and are good i will happily give them money sometimes...
If they aggressively approach me demanding money, disturbing my day or intentionally blocking my path they will get nothing but a hostile stare from me. This applies not only to buskers, but anyone trying to get something from me either for free or in exchange for something.
If your goods are on display and i like the look of them and/or ask about them thats great, if you aggressively try to sell to me i'm not interested.
Why do you need to use the latest version just for playing games?
Find a stable version and stick to it, use it only for gaming and nothing else. That way you reduce the chance of background cruft or updates breaking or slowing your games.
My work requires that i get various tasks done, how i achieve them doesn't matter so long as they get done. If they are performed more efficiently using Linux then that's where they are performed.
If you're being forced to use tools which make your work inefficient then you should raise it as a problem, or consider moving jobs.
There's lots of "should" and "shouldnt", but the fact is if you are locked in to oracle you are subservient to their demands and you have no rights.
People who work on farms can generally afford to live near a farm and get to work easily and quickly without stress, many people cannot afford to live near the business district of a major city and are faced with a long commute down congested routes with thousands of other commuters travelling to the same area at the same time.
Commuting time and cost of property within commuting distance are both significant problems for most office workers, and most office work these days is done on computer and doesn't need to be in any specific location.
Depends on the individual...
The idea of going to a shared workspace which is close to where you live instead of an office which is far away will appeal to some.
I don't mind going to an office occasionally, what i dislike is the discomfort and timewasting of travel, if i could walk 10 mins to a nearby office i would go there often by choice but as it stands a 1.5hr each way commute in great discomfort on a crowded train means i work from home 99% of the time.
Some people don't like working from home, they don't like working alone, don't have proper facilities/space at home, or they cant concentrate due to distractions. Most of these people would benefit from a shorter travel time.
Being able to live further away from the city is also a benefit, properties are bigger and cheaper.
It's not only the travel expenses, but the location expenses... There are lots of very cheap places to live, which are cheap because they are far from most workplaces which makes commuting impractical. Anywhere that's within daily commute distance of major cities is much more expensive.
Many people would happily accept a lower salary if it also meant significantly lower costs for them, resulting in a higher overall standard of living.
Yes, that's the whole point that people seem to be missing..
They're not advocating that a single company open branch offices all over the place for their staff.
They're advocating remote work, while also promoting shared working spaces where multiple employees from different companies can go and have a decent working environment without having to waste a long time travelling.
Working from home doesn't suit everyone for various reasons... Some people don't have the space (although this is often because of their commute forcing them to have a smaller more expensive place to live), some can't concentrate at home, some like the daily social aspect of meeting colleagues...
I hated travelling 1.5hrs each way per day to a central location, it was a colossal waste of my time and money, but i would happily do a 5-10 minute walk.
The reason the value of property decreases as you get further out is because workplaces are centralised and people want to minimise the amount of time they waste travelling. If workplaces were more distributed, people would have more freedom to decide where they wanted to live, instead of being forced to choose between cramped and expensive city apartment or long arduous commutes.
If you have users working from home, you can downsize your expensive downtown office and make significant savings that way. The idea isn't to build your own facilities all over the place, its to have shared facilities where people can go to do their remote work which are close to where they live for those who for whatever reason can't work from their home.
For most use cases, a change to linux will be a minor adjustment to the UI - if they even notice at all, and depending on which UI they were using previously, and which UI you choose to run on top of linux.
There are also significant differences between windows xp/7/8/10, as well as various applications they might have been using, switching to a newer version of windows and msoffice can be as big of a change for many users as switching to linux.
Most of those users are probably already using linux in one form or another (chromeos, android, embedded).
Most users don't actually care what they're running, and will use whatever they're given. They will complain about change - whatever the change might be, and after a while they'll get used to it and get on with their jobs.
Even if there's a firmware backdoor, it depends on how it interacts with the running OS...
If it's totally independent then it can still do its thing, but then it's somewhat limited in what exactly it can do. If it's aware of the OS then it can be far more effective, but is also likely to break if the OS is significantly changed.