I personally use sentences. They are fairly easy to remember and can have a lot of "complexity" to them. Such as a password like this:
The pigs all flew south. The 9 pigs flew south. Skinny Seth sat sewing! The sullen evergreen sat askew.
Passwords like that are easy to remember for accounts used often such as your primary computer account. Different punctuation, vocabulary, capitalization, occasional number usage. It is all there. Not quite the XKCD method, but its been the password generation system that I like. None of the crazy enforced Pa$sW0rd crap that silly people in IT magically think works better. Great article but this isn't hard to realize on your own. A look at how easily a multi-video card system can crack passwords and you obviously have to try something different. I chose sentences.
Absolutely, money alone isn't the issue. Each state should be able to do what it thinks is right. Such as South Dakota, a very cheap state, but still does well and its students aren't necessarily being harmed by "low" education spending. I personally think the DoE is a good candidate (ala Ron Paul's proposals) for a federal department that needs cut. It doesn't really help anything.
I am suggesting a buyer should personally take delivery - not via a "storage center". I know, it makes no sense. Neither does an individual buying something they do not actually want. It is ok though, the global market and "free" trade will break down when the costs of shipment rise enough due to higher transport costs.
Futures are what is needed to get farmers to raise hogs and grow corn, after all.
No its not, consumers are all that is needed to get farmers to raise hogs and grow corn. Now for a farmer to take out a loan, to buy the GM seeds and all the chemical to go with it for a certain sized gamble he might need to have a future as risk prevention. But he would otherwise have to plant cheaper, spray less, etc (and potentially make less profit but also carry less risk) if it were not for the future. Its my belief that if farmers produced less, with less Monsanto, and less risk they would still all make the same money if not more. Luckily there are still some old timers out there still running their farms with a mixture of crops doing it the right way.
Things went wrong when the futures were taken out by people who were not in the supply chain at all.
I believe anyone who buys a product should have to take shipment of a certain portion of that product as a way to show their good faith in that purchase. You want to buy a bunch of corn? Ok take shipment of 1/10th of it. You want to speculate on crude? Ok the tanker shows up in 3 weeks and you have to find a place for some of it. That is just my opinion though... The same _should_ go for gold as well. You want to buy gold? Then you've got a couple ounces coming to you by way of trusted courier. All of these products are physical products with their value existing due to what they actually are. You should, in a vacuum, want to have them and know that they are indeed what they purport to be. Shares of companies could be the same way, where a portion of the purchase would be mailed to you - individually printed out - that you would not be able to sell 1 minute later after the purchase.
Low-end integrated "crap" is what 95% of the world needs...That's even where AMD's own Llano is!...
Many people do agree with you which is why people are asking if the Llano support within the open source drivers is working yet. (Anecdotal...) I have a moderate 46xx series ATI card in my linux box which I can use happily with the open drivers. Performance isn't top notch but I have never needed 100% of its graphics capabilities. In my Llano laptop it is still all Windows 7. In the future I would be happy with another AMD APU system once the open driver support is better. The performance available with Llano is all I need to be paying for, spending more is wasteful.
Make sure you put a mark on it as well as change the size so people can't mistake it as being real, even if you think it is obvious it is a copy. The secret service (in charge of counterfeiting as well as protecting the pres') doesn't have a sense of humour in these matters.
The whole situation is absurd. Why should an individual be brought to "justice" for photocopying or duplicating a dollar bill? What has he/she done to harm the value of the currency of the USA? The USA Federal Government and the Federal Reserve hold much more responsibility for tarnishing the reputation and value of the dollar. Crazy stuff.
The question is do you want to game, and at what price... Because for excellent prices you can buy quad core AMD Llano laptops with all the CPU performance you really need and the GPU performance to play a lot of games. Why would you want to go the Intel route, pay more, and get less gaming performance?
It seems so basic, that any sell or buy order would have associated with it a price limit, why would anyone blindly say to "sell these X shares at any damn price you can!" is beyond belief. What is the point of liquidity when it comes at the cost of stupidity? If you base your view of behaviors off that of individuals this would be immediately, or rather abruptly, be brought to attention. Why would a farmer decide to sell his 10 bushels of oats for only 1/10th (or less!) of what he previously determined it to be worth?
Back to point, why should anyone else care if particular entity sells a large number of a given item and exhausts the buyers market? You can choose to determine that regardless of what they did, you still believe it to be worth holding onto. It is as if it were an involuntary loss of freedom - the algorithm says sell it!
I would counter that it is completely accurate for a program called "Notepad" to look and behave like a real notepad. If it just wants to be a text editor, well, it can be called that. Or ed, or vim, or edit, or etc... I think it is awesome. (Not a mac user, do not have any Apple devices, and still trying to get used to Gnome 3.) Certain parts of OS X are quite neat, and having a real looking Notepad is one of them. I have been tempted by OS X for a while now. Their 27" iMac seems like a neat platform - that resolution with IPS and a glassy cover is just about what I want. I would almost buy that to run Linux on except my current computer is still sufficient.
I think most people understand the direct application of a statistic such as MTBF. From what I can tell: the problem is that there should be a better statistic. It should even be updated over time, perhaps quarterly. Eventually the Adjusted MTBF value could be based on actual data. This isn't something that any company really likes to put out though. Imagine if Chevrolet had a real number given for something like their average miles driven until rebuild. Suddenly everyone would figure out why their small block engine has such cheap rebuild kits.
That is why I stick to the benchmarks on Linux for fair comparisons of AMD and Intel. Not to mention most gaming benchmarks (or real performance) don't give two shits about what cpu it is ran with. The main benchmarks I've seen so far have been from phoronix. It seems like a perfectly decent cpu though maybe the price should drop a bit. My two cents: the AMD A-series is the way to go, especially in laptops like this A6-3400.
Sticking with the same tried and true ui, and simply optimizing every bit of code that makes it work, to the point of perfectly polished code perfection is not what gets non computer experts excited about purchases. What does, is "the shiny!".
This is absolutely the truth...
Just the other day (and just now to check again) I was listening to an mp3 in Fedora 15. With totem it will take up 8% of cpu. This surely is while at a low mhz setting but in gnome3 i lost the gnome applet that shows your current speed. With mpg123 it takes about 3%. Does it have to be using that much cpu? That is with the visualization disabled. With it enabled it is closer to 30% cpu utilization. This is on an Athlon II x2 240 box with an ATI 4670 with the open source drivers. Which seems to be a pretty reasonable setup to run on with Linux these days.
Granted: my example is unfair since Gnome and totem aren't synonymous but they essentially are. Gnome/pulseaudio/totem are all tied together tightly. I suppose I could just buy a Phenom II x6 and quit complaining...
[do a google lookup and fuckoff]
Seriously. Try it.
Here is the goole search and then here is a nytimes article on it. This idiotic [citation needed] shit is so utterly rediculous. Oh Obama is an American born on US soil? Fuck that [CITATION NEEDED!!!]. Global Warming? Fuck that [CITATION NEEDED!!!].
Even wikipedia has an article on it. What do you expect people to do for you? Find internal documents from the FTC that categorically prove what happened? All we both have to go on is that Intel spent a shit load of money trying to defend itself and has been ruled against and has settled a deal to AMD and paid out even more money.
We have monitored more than 50 different exploit kits on 44 unique servers / IP addresses. Our figures come from the underlying statistical modules, thereby ensuring an as precise overview of the threat landscape as possible.
The statistical material covers all in all more than half a million user exposures out of which as many as 31.3 % were infected with the virus/malware due to missing security updates.
They could ask Gosling, oh wait he works for Google now. This is a tough issue for me at least. Java was designed by, written first by, marketed and pushed by Sun. Though this was years ago. By now it has indeed become popular but there are patents that still apply regardless of if its been rewritten by others. See, see it isn't Java - we changed the namespaces!!! It is understandable that Sun didn't want fragmentation of Java. It is one of the remaining great things they did. The $100m price to license Java onto Android seems to me like it was a fair request.
The part that becomes so ridiculous is why would licenses for just mobile/embedded become so contentious but yet Sun/Oracle doesn't give a shit elsewhere? It is possible that that aspect could bring Oracles case down. The judge is also on the right track asking why fragmentation is bad. However even looking at Mono and.NET is useful since they had to tread very lightly because of all the Microsoft patents - on a language and VM almost identical to Java even. Sometimes I feel like Oracle has to be protecting their views on Java usage but other times it is just crazy talk.
And just the same, there's a crapflood of compromised Linux servers out on the internet. Those hundreds of brute force SSH attacks you get daily are proof of that.
No, that you get. I disabled the forwarding of ssh to my machines. It is about as smart as walking around downtown in a skirt in the evening. Not much good can come of it.
So why hasn't anyone put together a truly awesome, truly IMMERSIVE experience? Instead of hitting keys (or moving a mouse or joystick, sorry I don't know, I'm not a gamer) you could JUST TURN YOUR HEAD, like in real-life (tm).
There is still the walking and movement aspect. I don't know many gamers who would buy a giant Hamster wheel like device to put into their parents basement. Gamers who want real-life immersion play paint ball, of course that requires physical movement and dramatically lowers the market.
Not necessarily. You cannot just remove the copyright notice from someone else's code and make believe that by removing the notice you have removed their legitimate copyright. BSD source has copyrights on it too. You can proceed to release the resulting product without source - true, but you cannot just make believe the copyright to go away. It seems as though google wants to. From the register article:
These fall under the GPLv2 which states that any work derived from them must also be published under the GPLv2, but Google uses scripts to take out all the comments and extraneous odds and sods, then claims that this removes the copyright.
At issue are the header files in the Linux kernel - a list of APIs and macros that are used during compilation.... highlights cases which have come before the US courts and established that copyright can exist on an API thanks to its innovative structure and design, which would seem to give the lie to Google's claims.
750 files that Google derived from Linux kernel header files published under the GPLv2.
Government has oversight...honest and hard-working diplomats...Governments are essentially shameless
You cannot be serious. The capability for individuals to affect change is weaker than you deem it to be. The capability for groups to affect change however is strong, such as is the case with a government. Without an informed populace the individuals see no need to become a group. We the people cannot even vote well without good information. Other than that I do not even know how to talk about those three ridiculous statements you made. There are brief moments in history where governments will have oversight, then those moments are gone.
The inquirer has another article where Medhi says the setup a honey pot! How preposterous! More seriously the question arises: If bing relies so heavily on users utilizing google, then what exactly does bing add to enhancing search results? Why would a user use bing specifically, and why not just use google?
Mehdi then claimed that Google's experiments were deliberately set up to fool Bing, labelling them a "honeypot attack".... Mehdi wasn't finished with denigrating Google's work, saying the tactic is also known as "click fraud" and that it is "the same type of attack employed by spammers on the web to trick consumers and produce bogus search results".
That coincided with Old Spice coming out with a whole bunch of products, besides stuff that old men wear. There has to be a lot more to the story than just Marketing. Hell, they probably were taken over by a new company that utilized the name's power to push out their new products. But other than that... An old man walked into a bar reeking of old spice and asked for an old fashioned.
You'd be written in and out of the "history" books.
Zinoviev died, and was written out.
Trotski was murdered in Mexico, and was written out.
Hundreds and thousands were written out of existence, their tombstones chiseled clean.
[citation needed]
What is it with people? You should not just be able to say Citation needed at whim. There are times in life where if you haven't done the research you should just not say anything at all. Go read a book. Go to a library. Get off your computer, and stop acting like you care if you actually do not. This is not wikipedia, this is slashdot. Stalin and Soviet history is not a hard topic to learn about.
The only indication that it is beta is that he released his review before Fedora 14 was actually released! First paragraph:
That's not to say that the newest version of Fedora, Fedora 14 Laughlin, is hard to use. It's not. But, if you need a lot of handholding as you explore Linux, I think you'll be better off with Ubuntu.
Though later he says:
There is a fix on the way for this problem, but it still wasn't in the late beta software I was trying out.
The tags at the top do not mention it as beta, nor does the title. That is far from being genuine... I think this article is pure trash personally. I saw it yesterday in the/. firehose where it belonged. I can not believe it made the front page. Running around installing the latest linux distro (pre-release at that!) in a virtual machine is not news worthy and makes for junk journalism.
"trying to piss them off might not be such a great idea."
You Sir/Madam is living in a police state. That sort of logic does not belong in a free society.
Absolutely... as a matter of fact, if the new style of these devices are being wired into MY automobiles battery and not being powered by their own battery then the legal right for their placement upon a vehicle in a public place needs reviewed. Also, if I found one of these on my vehicle I would go to my neighbors and ask if one of their kids put it in, and if none of them claimed it then the device would promptly be smashed into pieces. Since no one else would have any sort of public expectation to have put such a device there and it would thus be unclaimed.
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I personally use sentences. They are fairly easy to remember and can have a lot of "complexity" to them. Such as a password like this:
The pigs all flew south.
The 9 pigs flew south.
Skinny Seth sat sewing!
The sullen evergreen sat askew.
Passwords like that are easy to remember for accounts used often such as your primary computer account. Different punctuation, vocabulary, capitalization, occasional number usage. It is all there. Not quite the XKCD method, but its been the password generation system that I like. None of the crazy enforced Pa$sW0rd crap that silly people in IT magically think works better. Great article but this isn't hard to realize on your own. A look at how easily a multi-video card system can crack passwords and you obviously have to try something different. I chose sentences.
Absolutely, money alone isn't the issue. Each state should be able to do what it thinks is right. Such as South Dakota, a very cheap state, but still does well and its students aren't necessarily being harmed by "low" education spending. I personally think the DoE is a good candidate (ala Ron Paul's proposals) for a federal department that needs cut. It doesn't really help anything.
I am suggesting a buyer should personally take delivery - not via a "storage center". I know, it makes no sense. Neither does an individual buying something they do not actually want. It is ok though, the global market and "free" trade will break down when the costs of shipment rise enough due to higher transport costs.
Futures are what is needed to get farmers to raise hogs and grow corn, after all.
No its not, consumers are all that is needed to get farmers to raise hogs and grow corn. Now for a farmer to take out a loan, to buy the GM seeds and all the chemical to go with it for a certain sized gamble he might need to have a future as risk prevention. But he would otherwise have to plant cheaper, spray less, etc (and potentially make less profit but also carry less risk) if it were not for the future. Its my belief that if farmers produced less, with less Monsanto, and less risk they would still all make the same money if not more. Luckily there are still some old timers out there still running their farms with a mixture of crops doing it the right way.
Things went wrong when the futures were taken out by people who were not in the supply chain at all.
I believe anyone who buys a product should have to take shipment of a certain portion of that product as a way to show their good faith in that purchase. You want to buy a bunch of corn? Ok take shipment of 1/10th of it. You want to speculate on crude? Ok the tanker shows up in 3 weeks and you have to find a place for some of it. That is just my opinion though... The same _should_ go for gold as well. You want to buy gold? Then you've got a couple ounces coming to you by way of trusted courier. All of these products are physical products with their value existing due to what they actually are. You should, in a vacuum, want to have them and know that they are indeed what they purport to be. Shares of companies could be the same way, where a portion of the purchase would be mailed to you - individually printed out - that you would not be able to sell 1 minute later after the purchase.
Low-end integrated "crap" is what 95% of the world needs...That's even where AMD's own Llano is!...
Many people do agree with you which is why people are asking if the Llano support within the open source drivers is working yet. (Anecdotal...) I have a moderate 46xx series ATI card in my linux box which I can use happily with the open drivers. Performance isn't top notch but I have never needed 100% of its graphics capabilities. In my Llano laptop it is still all Windows 7. In the future I would be happy with another AMD APU system once the open driver support is better. The performance available with Llano is all I need to be paying for, spending more is wasteful.
Make sure you put a mark on it as well as change the size so people can't mistake it as being real, even if you think it is obvious it is a copy. The secret service (in charge of counterfeiting as well as protecting the pres') doesn't have a sense of humour in these matters.
The whole situation is absurd. Why should an individual be brought to "justice" for photocopying or duplicating a dollar bill? What has he/she done to harm the value of the currency of the USA? The USA Federal Government and the Federal Reserve hold much more responsibility for tarnishing the reputation and value of the dollar. Crazy stuff.
So in other words you're not a killer, just a throwback to an less evolved era. Good to know.
Evolution has nothing to do with modern society and current humans. An easy argument could be made that humans are rapidly devolving.
The question is do you want to game, and at what price... Because for excellent prices you can buy quad core AMD Llano laptops with all the CPU performance you really need and the GPU performance to play a lot of games. Why would you want to go the Intel route, pay more, and get less gaming performance?
It seems so basic, that any sell or buy order would have associated with it a price limit, why would anyone blindly say to "sell these X shares at any damn price you can!" is beyond belief. What is the point of liquidity when it comes at the cost of stupidity? If you base your view of behaviors off that of individuals this would be immediately, or rather abruptly, be brought to attention. Why would a farmer decide to sell his 10 bushels of oats for only 1/10th (or less!) of what he previously determined it to be worth?
Back to point, why should anyone else care if particular entity sells a large number of a given item and exhausts the buyers market? You can choose to determine that regardless of what they did, you still believe it to be worth holding onto. It is as if it were an involuntary loss of freedom - the algorithm says sell it!
I would counter that it is completely accurate for a program called "Notepad" to look and behave like a real notepad. If it just wants to be a text editor, well, it can be called that. Or ed, or vim, or edit, or etc... I think it is awesome. (Not a mac user, do not have any Apple devices, and still trying to get used to Gnome 3.) Certain parts of OS X are quite neat, and having a real looking Notepad is one of them. I have been tempted by OS X for a while now. Their 27" iMac seems like a neat platform - that resolution with IPS and a glassy cover is just about what I want. I would almost buy that to run Linux on except my current computer is still sufficient.
I think most people understand the direct application of a statistic such as MTBF. From what I can tell: the problem is that there should be a better statistic. It should even be updated over time, perhaps quarterly. Eventually the Adjusted MTBF value could be based on actual data. This isn't something that any company really likes to put out though. Imagine if Chevrolet had a real number given for something like their average miles driven until rebuild. Suddenly everyone would figure out why their small block engine has such cheap rebuild kits.
That is why I stick to the benchmarks on Linux for fair comparisons of AMD and Intel. Not to mention most gaming benchmarks (or real performance) don't give two shits about what cpu it is ran with. The main benchmarks I've seen so far have been from phoronix. It seems like a perfectly decent cpu though maybe the price should drop a bit. My two cents: the AMD A-series is the way to go, especially in laptops like this A6-3400.
Sticking with the same tried and true ui, and simply optimizing every bit of code that makes it work, to the point of perfectly polished code perfection is not what gets non computer experts excited about purchases. What does, is "the shiny!".
This is absolutely the truth...
Just the other day (and just now to check again) I was listening to an mp3 in Fedora 15. With totem it will take up 8% of cpu. This surely is while at a low mhz setting but in gnome3 i lost the gnome applet that shows your current speed. With mpg123 it takes about 3%. Does it have to be using that much cpu? That is with the visualization disabled. With it enabled it is closer to 30% cpu utilization. This is on an Athlon II x2 240 box with an ATI 4670 with the open source drivers. Which seems to be a pretty reasonable setup to run on with Linux these days.
Granted: my example is unfair since Gnome and totem aren't synonymous but they essentially are. Gnome/pulseaudio/totem are all tied together tightly. I suppose I could just buy a Phenom II x6 and quit complaining...
[do a google lookup and fuckoff]
Seriously. Try it. Here is the goole search and then here is a nytimes article on it. This idiotic [citation needed] shit is so utterly rediculous. Oh Obama is an American born on US soil? Fuck that [CITATION NEEDED!!!]. Global Warming? Fuck that [CITATION NEEDED!!!]. Even wikipedia has an article on it. What do you expect people to do for you? Find internal documents from the FTC that categorically prove what happened? All we both have to go on is that Intel spent a shit load of money trying to defend itself and has been ruled against and has settled a deal to AMD and paid out even more money.
We have monitored more than 50 different exploit kits on 44 unique servers / IP addresses. Our figures come from the underlying statistical modules, thereby ensuring an as precise overview of the threat landscape as possible.
The statistical material covers all in all more than half a million user exposures out of which as many as 31.3 % were infected with the virus/malware due to missing security updates.
They could ask Gosling, oh wait he works for Google now. This is a tough issue for me at least. Java was designed by, written first by, marketed and pushed by Sun. Though this was years ago. By now it has indeed become popular but there are patents that still apply regardless of if its been rewritten by others. See, see it isn't Java - we changed the namespaces!!! It is understandable that Sun didn't want fragmentation of Java. It is one of the remaining great things they did. The $100m price to license Java onto Android seems to me like it was a fair request.
The part that becomes so ridiculous is why would licenses for just mobile/embedded become so contentious but yet Sun/Oracle doesn't give a shit elsewhere? It is possible that that aspect could bring Oracles case down. The judge is also on the right track asking why fragmentation is bad. However even looking at Mono and .NET is useful since they had to tread very lightly because of all the Microsoft patents - on a language and VM almost identical to Java even. Sometimes I feel like Oracle has to be protecting their views on Java usage but other times it is just crazy talk.
And just the same, there's a crapflood of compromised Linux servers out on the internet. Those hundreds of brute force SSH attacks you get daily are proof of that.
No, that you get. I disabled the forwarding of ssh to my machines. It is about as smart as walking around downtown in a skirt in the evening. Not much good can come of it.
So why hasn't anyone put together a truly awesome, truly IMMERSIVE experience? Instead of hitting keys (or moving a mouse or joystick, sorry I don't know, I'm not a gamer) you could JUST TURN YOUR HEAD, like in real-life (tm).
There is still the walking and movement aspect. I don't know many gamers who would buy a giant Hamster wheel like device to put into their parents basement. Gamers who want real-life immersion play paint ball, of course that requires physical movement and dramatically lowers the market.
Not necessarily. You cannot just remove the copyright notice from someone else's code and make believe that by removing the notice you have removed their legitimate copyright. BSD source has copyrights on it too. You can proceed to release the resulting product without source - true, but you cannot just make believe the copyright to go away. It seems as though google wants to. From the register article:
These fall under the GPLv2 which states that any work derived from them must also be published under the GPLv2, but Google uses scripts to take out all the comments and extraneous odds and sods, then claims that this removes the copyright.
At issue are the header files in the Linux kernel - a list of APIs and macros that are used during compilation. ... highlights cases which have come before the US courts and established that copyright can exist on an API thanks to its innovative structure and design, which would seem to give the lie to Google's claims.
750 files that Google derived from Linux kernel header files published under the GPLv2.
Government has oversight...honest and hard-working diplomats...Governments are essentially shameless
You cannot be serious. The capability for individuals to affect change is weaker than you deem it to be. The capability for groups to affect change however is strong, such as is the case with a government. Without an informed populace the individuals see no need to become a group. We the people cannot even vote well without good information. Other than that I do not even know how to talk about those three ridiculous statements you made. There are brief moments in history where governments will have oversight, then those moments are gone.
The inquirer has another article where Medhi says the setup a honey pot! How preposterous! More seriously the question arises: If bing relies so heavily on users utilizing google, then what exactly does bing add to enhancing search results? Why would a user use bing specifically, and why not just use google?
Mehdi then claimed that Google's experiments were deliberately set up to fool Bing, labelling them a "honeypot attack". ... Mehdi wasn't finished with denigrating Google's work, saying the tactic is also known as "click fraud" and that it is "the same type of attack employed by spammers on the web to trick consumers and produce bogus search results".
That coincided with Old Spice coming out with a whole bunch of products, besides stuff that old men wear. There has to be a lot more to the story than just Marketing. Hell, they probably were taken over by a new company that utilized the name's power to push out their new products. But other than that... An old man walked into a bar reeking of old spice and asked for an old fashioned.
You'd be written in and out of the "history" books.
Zinoviev died, and was written out.
Trotski was murdered in Mexico, and was written out.
Hundreds and thousands were written out of existence, their tombstones chiseled clean.
[citation needed]
What is it with people? You should not just be able to say Citation needed at whim. There are times in life where if you haven't done the research you should just not say anything at all. Go read a book. Go to a library. Get off your computer, and stop acting like you care if you actually do not. This is not wikipedia, this is slashdot. Stalin and Soviet history is not a hard topic to learn about.
The only indication that it is beta is that he released his review before Fedora 14 was actually released! First paragraph:
That's not to say that the newest version of Fedora, Fedora 14 Laughlin, is hard to use. It's not. But, if you need a lot of handholding as you explore Linux, I think you'll be better off with Ubuntu.
Though later he says:
There is a fix on the way for this problem, but it still wasn't in the late beta software I was trying out.
The tags at the top do not mention it as beta, nor does the title. That is far from being genuine... I think this article is pure trash personally. I saw it yesterday in the /. firehose where it belonged. I can not believe it made the front page. Running around installing the latest linux distro (pre-release at that!) in a virtual machine is not news worthy and makes for junk journalism.
"trying to piss them off might not be such a great idea."
You Sir/Madam is living in a police state. That sort of logic does not belong in a free society.
Absolutely... as a matter of fact, if the new style of these devices are being wired into MY automobiles battery and not being powered by their own battery then the legal right for their placement upon a vehicle in a public place needs reviewed. Also, if I found one of these on my vehicle I would go to my neighbors and ask if one of their kids put it in, and if none of them claimed it then the device would promptly be smashed into pieces. Since no one else would have any sort of public expectation to have put such a device there and it would thus be unclaimed.