"This country is losing money fast and illegal immigration costs more each year than the war effort overseas."
I can't even begin to think of reasonable justification for this.
In my experience the speeds I get via tethering a smartphone are about an order of magnitude lower than a wired connection and the latency is super high.
Reading that article it sounds like the technical mistake wasn't really a mistake but the reality of the Germans hitting the most well defended spot with a creative attack that effectively countered the defense design. That's more of a lack of guessing what the future would bring. The line was effective against what it was built for.
I wasn't even using the last Ubuntu install I had for 3D games. Just watching typical video files or streaming video was horrendously buggy on a laptop I had it installed on for a while. That along with my wife's frustration at doing things as simple as updating her blog got me to install XP on the machine again pretty quickly. I've played around with and worked seriously in Linux and Unix environments for only a little over ten years now. Ten years ago I found Linux to be buggy and inconsistent as a daily typical use OS. While today it has some improvements it is still buggy and inconsistent for doing typical personal computer stuff.
I use a couple different Unix setups at work all the time and even use Cygwin in Windows at work. At home I have absolutely no desire to install Linux to replace Windows on any of my machines because it would only require massive amounts of additional maintenance and headache.
Further more there are many people like myself who had it installed on a machine in the last couple years but don't use it anymore. How up to date our these numbers? I had a laptop hard drive die and installed it because it was easier than finding one of my XP install CDs. My wife hated it though and I had to agree it was anything but an improvement. So while we used it we don't anymore.
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Some neighbors were over for dinner on Saturday who has just purchased two iPads. We were going to a movie after dinner and wanted to buy tickets ahead of time (one of those theaters with assigned seating). They were trying to do it on a netbook we have and having some trouble. It occurred to me that between their iPhones and now their iPads they weren't used to going to an actual website to order tickets. They were used to having an app for that and pretty much everything else that most PC users happily use a web browser for.
My point is that there is an entire class of users out there that have become used to an app for whatever task they might regularly perform. I'm not criticizing this as the specialized apps are usually going to get the job done faster than a often clunky website.
There was a similar issue in Boston but with a woman who bought a place and found out smokers lived below her. She could actually smell the smoke in her condo and claimed it made her sick. That was a case of real detrimental environmental issues caused by a neighbor. The courts still didn't make the smoker change their habits. Any judge siding with this EMI sensitivity wacko needs to have their case log reviewed.
I design control systems for engines (jet engines instead of car engines though). A common phrase used is "cosmic rays" but it is understood this is any stray electromagnetic interference. The "cosmic" part is probably where the reference to outer space is coming from. I've usually used it in the sense that we make our systems resistant to what the description mentions. A single bit error can't cause the control systems I work on to fail. I'm not well versed in automotive control systems but I would expect them to be dual redundant (possibly completely dual channel) and I really doubt a single bit error could screw them up so royally. In addition these control systems are pretty well hardened against heat, vibration, and EMI. I doubt cosmic rays are the problem.
Your plan is pretty much spot on except that the difficulty isn't as high as the person you responded to implied. There are not hundreds of sensors. More like tens of sensors.
Are you trying to tell a joke? The US military bases in Japan are there because Japan is only allowed to have a "peace keeping force" due to the rules put down after WWII. This basically leaves foreign countries responsible for keeping Japan from getting obliterated by North Korean wackos. The military bases in Japanese territory are strategic for the US of course but their existence is at least as critical to the security of Japan.
You are drastically over-complicating the issue. The data is almost certainly unencoded hex in the standard NVM location for fault logging. All you have to do is get a data dump of that and then line up the data with a parameter list. I wouldn't say this is trivial but it'd be doable for someone with the right tools and facility. It wouldn't require a team of uber hackers.
The data is probably just standard unencrypted hex in the NVM. All you really need is to line up the data with the parameters. Assuming four byte values you could run the car through known cycles instrumented up and then start looking to line things up like RPM, temp, torque, etc. Not something most people could do in their garage but certainly not impossible.
As someone who works on embed systems (aircraft) I can tell you that it isn't difficult to avoid what you're describing. The engine ECU can easily be isolated from all the silly accessory crap. Even if there is an interface it is pretty easy to design, test, and implement, measures to prevent what you're describing.
These are embedded ECUs. Not web servers.
You do know that Open Source does not equal free right? Open source or not they're going to be paying for support. It is altogether possible for a closed proprietary system to ultimately be cheaper than open source because support is much cheaper and easier to get.
The existing ISPs can't be swept aside that easily. Many could in fact provide much better service with a nominal investment in their networks. The only reason they don't bother is a lack of motivation in the market (aka competition). If my options are Comcast or dial up what is their motivation to improve service? Look at cell phone companies. In the last ten years I've gone from 500 minutes a month to unlimited everything with only small price increases. My ISP has provided progressively crappier service over the last 15 years while increasing their prices.
I work on the controls for complicated systems. Our part of the system is like a little computer. It can record and report problems with the overall system. We ALWAYS get blamed when there is a problem because we're the ones who report it. It makes us into little engine debuggers because we're always considered at fault for a failure until we prove otherwise.
Working on a government project at Boeing IS working for the government. It isn't outsourcing. It is hiring a vendor to do a job for you. Yes, there is a difference. The government does not have the facilities and expertise to support the program. Short of the government socializing all industry that's how things work.
The military industrial complex label is applicable but depending on your views of the space shuttle program this is a positive result. A private company without the aid of the government was nowhere near creating a space shuttle. The government had to collude with big industry players to make the shuttle happen. Did this make a lot of money for some companies like Boeing? Almost certainly. Is it bad? Well that's another matter and people could easily argue either way. It certainly has served to put the US in a more dominate role globally.
Just imagine having a dialog box in Mac OS X or on an iPhone telling the user to "ask the system administrator" for something? That's very common on Windows, but totally unthinkable on an Apple device.
What? I use three different Microsoft OSes between work and home and I've never seen a dialogue box asking the user to "ask the system administrator."
As a man who is too lame to care much about football I thought the Google ad was stupid (as did my wife) found it telling that virtually none of the ads (only one phone ad sticks out) used sex appeal despite the target audience being men. Either ad makers are stupid or something I've always assumed is pretty basic concerning advertising has changed.
My wife was appalled that such a large device is still nothing but an ipod touch. She can multi-task on her phone, why not on a $500 computing thing? She'd happily take a netbook that does so much more. Why would you pay more for the "pleasure" of fewer features? If all the abilities of a netbook frighten and confuse you just drive a screw threw all the extra bits so only the bare essentials work.
CEOs of most tech companies are being paid too damn much. Why is a CEO making around 180 times what someone starting out makes and probably still at least a 100 times what someone with many years experience is making?
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"who made a career out of demagoguery and debauchery" Yeah that's not a slanted way of characterizing his entire career or anything.
"This country is losing money fast and illegal immigration costs more each year than the war effort overseas." I can't even begin to think of reasonable justification for this.
In my experience the speeds I get via tethering a smartphone are about an order of magnitude lower than a wired connection and the latency is super high.
Reading that article it sounds like the technical mistake wasn't really a mistake but the reality of the Germans hitting the most well defended spot with a creative attack that effectively countered the defense design. That's more of a lack of guessing what the future would bring. The line was effective against what it was built for.
I wasn't even using the last Ubuntu install I had for 3D games. Just watching typical video files or streaming video was horrendously buggy on a laptop I had it installed on for a while. That along with my wife's frustration at doing things as simple as updating her blog got me to install XP on the machine again pretty quickly. I've played around with and worked seriously in Linux and Unix environments for only a little over ten years now. Ten years ago I found Linux to be buggy and inconsistent as a daily typical use OS. While today it has some improvements it is still buggy and inconsistent for doing typical personal computer stuff. I use a couple different Unix setups at work all the time and even use Cygwin in Windows at work. At home I have absolutely no desire to install Linux to replace Windows on any of my machines because it would only require massive amounts of additional maintenance and headache.
Further more there are many people like myself who had it installed on a machine in the last couple years but don't use it anymore. How up to date our these numbers? I had a laptop hard drive die and installed it because it was easier than finding one of my XP install CDs. My wife hated it though and I had to agree it was anything but an improvement. So while we used it we don't anymore.
Some neighbors were over for dinner on Saturday who has just purchased two iPads. We were going to a movie after dinner and wanted to buy tickets ahead of time (one of those theaters with assigned seating). They were trying to do it on a netbook we have and having some trouble. It occurred to me that between their iPhones and now their iPads they weren't used to going to an actual website to order tickets. They were used to having an app for that and pretty much everything else that most PC users happily use a web browser for. My point is that there is an entire class of users out there that have become used to an app for whatever task they might regularly perform. I'm not criticizing this as the specialized apps are usually going to get the job done faster than a often clunky website.
There was a similar issue in Boston but with a woman who bought a place and found out smokers lived below her. She could actually smell the smoke in her condo and claimed it made her sick. That was a case of real detrimental environmental issues caused by a neighbor. The courts still didn't make the smoker change their habits. Any judge siding with this EMI sensitivity wacko needs to have their case log reviewed.
I design control systems for engines (jet engines instead of car engines though). A common phrase used is "cosmic rays" but it is understood this is any stray electromagnetic interference. The "cosmic" part is probably where the reference to outer space is coming from. I've usually used it in the sense that we make our systems resistant to what the description mentions. A single bit error can't cause the control systems I work on to fail. I'm not well versed in automotive control systems but I would expect them to be dual redundant (possibly completely dual channel) and I really doubt a single bit error could screw them up so royally. In addition these control systems are pretty well hardened against heat, vibration, and EMI. I doubt cosmic rays are the problem.
Your plan is pretty much spot on except that the difficulty isn't as high as the person you responded to implied. There are not hundreds of sensors. More like tens of sensors.
What does the number of lines of code have to do with reading the fault log out of non volatile memory?
Are you trying to tell a joke? The US military bases in Japan are there because Japan is only allowed to have a "peace keeping force" due to the rules put down after WWII. This basically leaves foreign countries responsible for keeping Japan from getting obliterated by North Korean wackos. The military bases in Japanese territory are strategic for the US of course but their existence is at least as critical to the security of Japan.
You are drastically over-complicating the issue. The data is almost certainly unencoded hex in the standard NVM location for fault logging. All you have to do is get a data dump of that and then line up the data with a parameter list. I wouldn't say this is trivial but it'd be doable for someone with the right tools and facility. It wouldn't require a team of uber hackers.
The data is probably just standard unencrypted hex in the NVM. All you really need is to line up the data with the parameters. Assuming four byte values you could run the car through known cycles instrumented up and then start looking to line things up like RPM, temp, torque, etc. Not something most people could do in their garage but certainly not impossible.
As someone who works on embed systems (aircraft) I can tell you that it isn't difficult to avoid what you're describing. The engine ECU can easily be isolated from all the silly accessory crap. Even if there is an interface it is pretty easy to design, test, and implement, measures to prevent what you're describing. These are embedded ECUs. Not web servers.
Unlike spore I'd like it to not suck.
You do know that Open Source does not equal free right? Open source or not they're going to be paying for support. It is altogether possible for a closed proprietary system to ultimately be cheaper than open source because support is much cheaper and easier to get.
The existing ISPs can't be swept aside that easily. Many could in fact provide much better service with a nominal investment in their networks. The only reason they don't bother is a lack of motivation in the market (aka competition). If my options are Comcast or dial up what is their motivation to improve service? Look at cell phone companies. In the last ten years I've gone from 500 minutes a month to unlimited everything with only small price increases. My ISP has provided progressively crappier service over the last 15 years while increasing their prices.
I work on the controls for complicated systems. Our part of the system is like a little computer. It can record and report problems with the overall system. We ALWAYS get blamed when there is a problem because we're the ones who report it. It makes us into little engine debuggers because we're always considered at fault for a failure until we prove otherwise.
Working on a government project at Boeing IS working for the government. It isn't outsourcing. It is hiring a vendor to do a job for you. Yes, there is a difference. The government does not have the facilities and expertise to support the program. Short of the government socializing all industry that's how things work. The military industrial complex label is applicable but depending on your views of the space shuttle program this is a positive result. A private company without the aid of the government was nowhere near creating a space shuttle. The government had to collude with big industry players to make the shuttle happen. Did this make a lot of money for some companies like Boeing? Almost certainly. Is it bad? Well that's another matter and people could easily argue either way. It certainly has served to put the US in a more dominate role globally.
Just imagine having a dialog box in Mac OS X or on an iPhone telling the user to "ask the system administrator" for something? That's very common on Windows, but totally unthinkable on an Apple device.
What? I use three different Microsoft OSes between work and home and I've never seen a dialogue box asking the user to "ask the system administrator."
As a man who is too lame to care much about football I thought the Google ad was stupid (as did my wife) found it telling that virtually none of the ads (only one phone ad sticks out) used sex appeal despite the target audience being men. Either ad makers are stupid or something I've always assumed is pretty basic concerning advertising has changed.
My wife was appalled that such a large device is still nothing but an ipod touch. She can multi-task on her phone, why not on a $500 computing thing? She'd happily take a netbook that does so much more. Why would you pay more for the "pleasure" of fewer features? If all the abilities of a netbook frighten and confuse you just drive a screw threw all the extra bits so only the bare essentials work.
CEOs of most tech companies are being paid too damn much. Why is a CEO making around 180 times what someone starting out makes and probably still at least a 100 times what someone with many years experience is making?
It is notable that the person who invented the wheel borrow was lazy.
We should all be so determined to improve the standard of laziness.