People in Germany will usually pay for their groceries either with debit card ("EC card") or in cash. Anything small, take-awayish is almost always paid with cash and people look at you funny if you ask if you can pay with credit card or other similar new fangled stuff.
I don't know about the Swiss, but we Germany sure do love our cash way too much. I went on several business trips to Sweden and the difference in culture when it comes to paying for stuff is huge. A Swedish business contact related a story of how she ended up holding a weird piece of metal at the end of a business transaction and it took her a while of research to find out that was normal Swedish coinage that had been in circulation for years - and she'd never seen it because she and her coworkers never use cash for anything. It was as hard for them to understand our love of cash as it was for us to understand their love for cashless payment.
I think the reason we love cash so much is two fold: for one we love us our privacy and hate if people keep track of our spendings (or anything else in fact) and also there's this sense that if civilization ends tomorrow, then cash is probably more use than phone-based micropayment systems. It's the bird in the hand, so to speak.
This is more of the same. More rules that everyone will blissfully ignore. No punishment for anyone. Why do you think so many countries agreed? Because it's just a feel-good empty gesture, nothing more.
Do you actually play MMOs? These guys tend to spam their godl sales any which way they can, flooding your inbox and every chat they can access. Pretty damn annoying.
You know what's coming tomorrow, you've known and waited for it for months now.
[ ] omgomgomg I can't wait!
[ ] I'm somewhat excited, and I know what this is all about
[ ] Wait, I don't even have a "smart" phone
[x] wtf are you drivelling on about?
I love it when people make really stupid assumptions based on their own fanboy experiences:)
It was on the radio here, at 5am, and I was still half asleep. I only heard Clinton, running-mate and Cain, and I thought she had picked John McCain as running mate.
I thought that was terribly terribly clever of her...
Cisco basically says you can use Open Source software on your device (the one you're manufacturing) as long as it's not something like GPL3-licensed. Because that would require you to make the software updatable for the user. Their opinion has no bearing on using the likes of OpenWRT or derived AP offerings. None at all.
Anyone who's actually taken a closer look at the relevant FCC regulation (or its equally restrictive ETSI counterpart) will struggle to come up with ways to fully comply with this regulation without locking down the firmware. If you have a WLAN chip that has efuses/internal EEPROM that contain country settings, and if the chip reads them instead of the driver, then all is good. In every other case, it's very difficult.
Of course, neither FCC nor ETSI care about that at all. And manufacturers will probably come up with intentionally lousy ways to lock down their firmware because they still want to sell their products and nobody really wants the default firmware:p
Most? Absolutely not. This, from my personal experience, is definitely false. Most roads have lines. They just don't bother with some rural roads that don't see much usage and that're in such bad condition that nobody in their right mind would speed there anyway.
Have you ever seen a busy intersection where the traffic lights are out due to a malfunction? Flows better? In your dreams. The result is total chaos and traffic jams.
He should have been made to wait much longer. If you compare the size of a Tesla car with that of an iPhone and if you consider the lines of people forming in front of the Apple store and the waiting times involved every time a new model is released, well, he should've been made to wait in line a few weeks! Bad marketing! Baaaaaaaaaaad!
Lol, yeah that's why I drive one:D Nice try, utter fail. Besides, the current "diesel crisis" is not about particulate output, it's about NOx. Try doing your homework before calling people names:)
If in reality car emissions are higher than overly ambitious standards, but still low enough that air quality is OK - should the cars be "fixed" (as in the pet related term, neutered) or instead should the regulations be brought to realistic levels based on what cars are actually emitting today?
Air quality is anything but okay. I can't speak for the US, but here in Europe, we have serious problems with it. In China it's so bad in some areas you can actually only register a new car if it's electric - that's actually an important reason why electric cars are getting more attention now.
I also love how this is treated as a new problem ("A new quality of terrorism", as an European politician put it a short while ago), as if there never was an Unabomber, an IRA, a RAF, an ETA or a "top terrorist" Carlos The Jackal. And the fact that a mass shooting totally changes everything because it was political, in contrast to the several hundred other shootings that weren't;-)
Deterence is a function of both expected penalty and the assumed chance of being caught. One does nothing without the other. Example: death penalty for corruption in China. It's rampant, but as long as you don't go out of your way to piss off the wrong people, everybody's looking the other way.
All sex toys save one I've ever seen were for women. How did she come to the conclusion that sex bots would be built for men? Sex bots for women are much more likely and, I dare say, almost exist already.
Maybe they should just build an unisex fuckbot with industry-standard extension slots which can be fitted with either a dildo or a fleshlight? Then everybody could objectify in peace and equality! Of course there's a very real danger that the fuckbots would just pair off with each others and give us the finger;)
The problem is a fraud on the public. Advocating a position that is based on who pays you, without regard to reason or truth or the benefit to mankind, without so much as a notice of your bias, causes massive amounts of harm to the public by sustaining inefficient practices.
Sorry to have to be the one to break it to you, but apparently you've been living under a rock for at least ten years. This practice, how despicable it may be, is now commonplace. I run a small fan website for a video game, and I've been sent offers to write positive reviews of gaming-related products (for instance some 3D goggles) for compensation without any hint or notice that, for all intents and purposes, this would've been an advertizement.I declined, but I'm betting most people in my situation wouldn't have. Journalists in particular often earn so little and don't have actual jobs but are forced to working freelance that the offer is just too tempting.
Another more drastic (and *much* more difficult) modification you could do is create a CAN firewall and just block potentially life threatening messages from leaving modules that are network connected.
Good luck figuring out all the relevant CAN IDs for all the models you want to sell your gizmo for:)
The corvette wasn't hacked, they hacked an OBD-2 dongle that was stuck connected to it - entirely different thing. And electronic access systems for opening your car with an RC have apparently all been hacked or are less than safe. Keyless Go cars can be opened with a proxy attack. So where does that leave you?
If you buy an old car, the thief can just open it and steal it the old fashioned way. So pick the car you want and stop thinking about stuff like this, it's useless anyway. If someone wants to steal your car, they'll do it. Either electronically or mechanically.
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People in Germany will usually pay for their groceries either with debit card ("EC card") or in cash. Anything small, take-awayish is almost always paid with cash and people look at you funny if you ask if you can pay with credit card or other similar new fangled stuff. I don't know about the Swiss, but we Germany sure do love our cash way too much. I went on several business trips to Sweden and the difference in culture when it comes to paying for stuff is huge. A Swedish business contact related a story of how she ended up holding a weird piece of metal at the end of a business transaction and it took her a while of research to find out that was normal Swedish coinage that had been in circulation for years - and she'd never seen it because she and her coworkers never use cash for anything. It was as hard for them to understand our love of cash as it was for us to understand their love for cashless payment. I think the reason we love cash so much is two fold: for one we love us our privacy and hate if people keep track of our spendings (or anything else in fact) and also there's this sense that if civilization ends tomorrow, then cash is probably more use than phone-based micropayment systems. It's the bird in the hand, so to speak.
This is more of the same. More rules that everyone will blissfully ignore. No punishment for anyone. Why do you think so many countries agreed? Because it's just a feel-good empty gesture, nothing more.
I mean, c'mon, easy. It's where we all come from, no matter what race color or creed!
Who, actually, gets harmed.
Do you actually play MMOs? These guys tend to spam their godl sales any which way they can, flooding your inbox and every chat they can access. Pretty damn annoying.
Hooray for the sudden outbreak of common sense (Trump, Brexit, etc)
[citation needed]
You know what's coming tomorrow, you've known and waited for it for months now.
[ ] omgomgomg I can't wait!
[ ] I'm somewhat excited, and I know what this is all about
[ ] Wait, I don't even have a "smart" phone
[x] wtf are you drivelling on about?
I love it when people make really stupid assumptions based on their own fanboy experiences :)
It was on the radio here, at 5am, and I was still half asleep. I only heard Clinton, running-mate and Cain, and I thought she had picked John McCain as running mate.
I thought that was terribly terribly clever of her...
Cisco basically says you can use Open Source software on your device (the one you're manufacturing) as long as it's not something like GPL3-licensed. Because that would require you to make the software updatable for the user. Their opinion has no bearing on using the likes of OpenWRT or derived AP offerings. None at all.
Anyone who's actually taken a closer look at the relevant FCC regulation (or its equally restrictive ETSI counterpart) will struggle to come up with ways to fully comply with this regulation without locking down the firmware. If you have a WLAN chip that has efuses/internal EEPROM that contain country settings, and if the chip reads them instead of the driver, then all is good. In every other case, it's very difficult.
Of course, neither FCC nor ETSI care about that at all. And manufacturers will probably come up with intentionally lousy ways to lock down their firmware because they still want to sell their products and nobody really wants the default firmware :p
Not true in all cases. Here for example you always have both traffic lights and the usualy signs in case the traffic lights are out.
Where then? I'm curious :)
Most? Absolutely not. This, from my personal experience, is definitely false. Most roads have lines. They just don't bother with some rural roads that don't see much usage and that're in such bad condition that nobody in their right mind would speed there anyway.
Have you ever seen a busy intersection where the traffic lights are out due to a malfunction? Flows better? In your dreams. The result is total chaos and traffic jams.
He should have been made to wait much longer. If you compare the size of a Tesla car with that of an iPhone and if you consider the lines of people forming in front of the Apple store and the waiting times involved every time a new model is released, well, he should've been made to wait in line a few weeks! Bad marketing! Baaaaaaaaaaad!
Wow I really want some of what you're smoking! :D
Lol, yeah that's why I drive one :D Nice try, utter fail. Besides, the current "diesel crisis" is not about particulate output, it's about NOx. Try doing your homework before calling people names :)
Besides, most of the automobile pollution isn't gasoline cars, it's from diesel and 2-stroke mopeds.
This article is about cars with diesel engines....
If in reality car emissions are higher than overly ambitious standards, but still low enough that air quality is OK - should the cars be "fixed" (as in the pet related term, neutered) or instead should the regulations be brought to realistic levels based on what cars are actually emitting today?
Air quality is anything but okay. I can't speak for the US, but here in Europe, we have serious problems with it. In China it's so bad in some areas you can actually only register a new car if it's electric - that's actually an important reason why electric cars are getting more attention now.
I also love how this is treated as a new problem ("A new quality of terrorism", as an European politician put it a short while ago), as if there never was an Unabomber, an IRA, a RAF, an ETA or a "top terrorist" Carlos The Jackal. And the fact that a mass shooting totally changes everything because it was political, in contrast to the several hundred other shootings that weren't ;-)
Calling atheists a "religious group"? That made me smile :)
Deterence is a function of both expected penalty and the assumed chance of being caught. One does nothing without the other. Example: death penalty for corruption in China. It's rampant, but as long as you don't go out of your way to piss off the wrong people, everybody's looking the other way.
If you believe it is a bomb, evacuate, call the specialists in and denotate that thing. Did that happen? Curiously, no. What does that tell us?
All sex toys save one I've ever seen were for women. How did she come to the conclusion that sex bots would be built for men? Sex bots for women are much more likely and, I dare say, almost exist already.
Maybe they should just build an unisex fuckbot with industry-standard extension slots which can be fitted with either a dildo or a fleshlight? Then everybody could objectify in peace and equality! Of course there's a very real danger that the fuckbots would just pair off with each others and give us the finger ;)
The problem is a fraud on the public. Advocating a position that is based on who pays you, without regard to reason or truth or the benefit to mankind, without so much as a notice of your bias, causes massive amounts of harm to the public by sustaining inefficient practices.
Sorry to have to be the one to break it to you, but apparently you've been living under a rock for at least ten years. This practice, how despicable it may be, is now commonplace. I run a small fan website for a video game, and I've been sent offers to write positive reviews of gaming-related products (for instance some 3D goggles) for compensation without any hint or notice that, for all intents and purposes, this would've been an advertizement.I declined, but I'm betting most people in my situation wouldn't have. Journalists in particular often earn so little and don't have actual jobs but are forced to working freelance that the offer is just too tempting.
Another more drastic (and *much* more difficult) modification you could do is create a CAN firewall and just block potentially life threatening messages from leaving modules that are network connected.
Good luck figuring out all the relevant CAN IDs for all the models you want to sell your gizmo for :)
The corvette wasn't hacked, they hacked an OBD-2 dongle that was stuck connected to it - entirely different thing. And electronic access systems for opening your car with an RC have apparently all been hacked or are less than safe. Keyless Go cars can be opened with a proxy attack. So where does that leave you?
If you buy an old car, the thief can just open it and steal it the old fashioned way. So pick the car you want and stop thinking about stuff like this, it's useless anyway. If someone wants to steal your car, they'll do it. Either electronically or mechanically.