Why the fuck do our cars need to be connected to the internet of things. Cars work when they have the least amount of electrical components hooked to them. Carburetors were great and easy to troubleshoot, fix and rebuild. Then came fuel injections and those pesky injectors cost big bucks to replace sometimes more than the car is worth and all the new ones are computer controlled. Now all our cars have black boxes in them and when I go to the emissions station to get cerified they hook to the box and it rats me out. (Of course I clear out the info about 2 weeks before I go and run around a bit ) All of hat has been followed up by our vehicles that are on the internet Onstar and the like. guess what folds A Holes all over the world are taking notice and car jacking has just gotten much easier. Hell I don't even have to tamper with the brakes if I want to kill someone all I have to do is notice when they drive away hack in notice were they are and when they power through a curve I can add a little more juice and kill the brakes then let nature takes it course. So this all begs the question? Why. We don't we divorce our vehicle's operations from communications ability, ie a firewall? Is any of really needed. I personally don't drive all that much. I work from home. I have a 99 Dodge pickup truck and 2 Harley's we really need to reevaluate where we are going with all this...
1. Live in your work cube.
2. Buy an RV and or school bus and park it at Wallmart I believe they let campers park in their lots for free over night.
3. Live in your car.
4. Live in a tent.
5. Move out of CA as there are already too many people living there and and the land cannot support that many people and it's a natural and man made disaster in the making.
The Metals market has dropped through the floor. All I can say is in CT we send it all to trash to energy plant and the metals come out the bottom. More electricity means less trash around here.....
All of this just a money grab. And a promise to be off fossil fuels by the end of the century? Who knows what's going to happen in 80 years and making promises for those people is just wrong...
I took German in High School and College and I was told back then you had to pass a national board test on German fluency. Of course that was when Germany was called West Germany and not the East has been incorporated and more people not as fluent in German as they are in Russian. So maybe Germany is looking to align their process and business more and more in English. I don't know but I wish I could have gone to Germany to go to school and not have to pass that pesky National German Proficiency test.
The Government has all this student aid and the Government loans. All schools make sure they maximize the amount of monies they grab from the Government. There seems to be no oversight on the schools spending habits. The schools are increasingly building building but more than just functional and grean buildings they are building them with marble and granite. No oversight on their spending on salaries. The schools spend money like drunken sailors. When I went to school the cost was like 800 dollars a year for tuition and fees. The government paid all of that and gave me 1500 dollars a semester just for showing up. Yes I was a vet and my home state of CT pays for tuition for all vets who served in a war zone to state schools. The school I went to costs now like 10K a year for tuition and fees. In 25 years it's gone up that much? Has inflation been that out of control? This is all not to mention boarding costs and food charges. (Which I did not incur) So the way I see things if the Government is subsidizing the schools they need to take a closer look at how the money is being used. One more pet peeve here. My daughter is starting college up in the fall. The federal student loan program limits the amount that kids can put in for. The limit is 5500 dollars at around 1 or 2 percent money. But the government takes 500 of that money and charges it to the kids as a fee so actually they are only getting 5000 a year from the feds and getting charged 500 right off the top as administrative fees(taxes?)
Obama has not only used executive orders but he is also using rule / law verification / guidelines to the various departments on how to operate. In other words he is telling them how to operate / interpret various laws that govern their operations. I guess the next president can undo what Obama has put in place or wait till all this stuff eventually makes it's way to the Supreme Court.
We need our politicians to decriminalize the very act of being human in the US. We need to make the US the land of the free once more. We are no longer a free country as evidenced by the Patriot act. The whole legislation that makes it easier to bring down terrorist are making more and more American's felons. We put more people in Jail and Prison than any other country in the world. We created a crime out of taking out 9999 dollars at a time called structuring. Now If I wanted to take out more than 10 K from my saving and blow it all on coke that should be my business. The government is so ate up with the war on terrorism and the war on drugs and in a sick manner linked the two, that we the people are all caught up in the cross hairs. So when the FBI ask you a question any question, and you lie to them, and they can lie all they want to you, it's a felony. Think about all this the next time you are standing in line at CVS to sign for your monthly allotment of psudophed. (Oh yeah another piece of the Patriot act)
Ok my first smartphone was a windows ce phone. So I guess you would say I was on Windows before anything. Today I have a collection of smartphones. I look for bargains / steals on ebay and I jump on them. I swap the sim card out on my phones like changing underwear. It all depends on my mood. Today I'm in an IOS mood so I have my IPhone 5sl 64GB phone running. Some days it might be my Samsung Note 4 or my (gasp) Firephone. I even have 3 windows phones 2 Nokia's and 1 HTC. For me it's all about my mood and not so much the platform. So getting to my point. Tim Cook is full of shit and he has been drinking the Cupertino Coolaid. How would he know when some one switches their phone out? Who keeps those stats? I think he is pulling numbers out of his back orifice. Though there is one cool thing to note. When I log onto the AT&T wireless sight, it tells me what type of phone is presently being used for each of my 3 wireless numbers and it tells me what type of tablet is being used on my one sim card dedicated to tablet use. I doubt that Tim is getting his stats from there.
Yes every class has a different personality but it's the professor's job to motivate students and get them to perform at higher levels than they have ever done before and do this in a way that provides the students with the tools to learn to self motivate. You need to teach students how to learn and that should be a process reinforced in every class. It sounds to me this professor is burned out and it may be time for a sabbatical? lets see how the other professor does with the class and see how his personality blends? Teaching is all about personality. I'm not saying these students are not culpable but you need to deal with things every year. Then you get burned out then you take time off and recharge take some motivational coursework and then hit the ground running once again. Or get out and make your mark in the markets....
You would have thought that this was such an obvious answer that someone would have come up with this solution a long time ago. Also batteries can act as a buffer just in case of spikes too. The batteries can protect the grid from energy spikes. Now the big question is: Who is going to pay for all these batteries? I plan on adding batteries to my solar cell installation but why should I pay for grid upgrades when those bastards have been and still are over charging me. Northeast Utilities, now Eversource got a rate increase from the State of CT in a year that fuel prices have been at low levels, so low we have not seen cheap fuel in decades yet they convinced the CT DPUC board to hike the rates. They are claiming poverty because of all the solar cell installations. Bastards...
The Military used to call our cars POV's and I used to call my car a POV, POS. Then came the point of sale setups and they appropriated my acronym. Now we can go back to using POS as it's original intended purpose. BTW thanks for giving me the password, it think I might just get rich and lucky this weekend...
I so have an IPhone but I also have a couple Windows Phones and several Android phones. My favorite is the Note 3, even better now that AT&T finally upgraded it to Lollipop. Gotta have an extra couple phone with you just in case.
1. The Russians came out last week and stated that they were specifically targeting Yellowstone with nukes as a way to take out at least 2/3 of the US. They seem to think if they can get penetration with several nukes they can kick off an eruption. Crazy Russians. Maybe we do live in a glass house after all.
2. Since we seem to be able to create earth quakes by simply dumping salt water and waste water into miles deep caverns below West Texas and Oklahoma why can't we use that water to cool and solidify and artificially stabilize the magma chamber. In Iceland they were able to cool lava flows and they have saved several towns by pumping cool ocean water on the on coming lava flows. You would think that we can truly become masters of this planet.
In the end it might mean we have to actually pay for content. I put up with adds so I can get free content. Best way to cut down on the adds, block the auto flash on your web browsers and it will speed up page movement and you can choose what you want to engage in. Takes away lots of the ads.
Amphetamines will help anyone out. They are like smart pills. They help you focus like a laser. The US Air Force give them to their pilots so they can loiter on station longer. I just read that the FDA approved vyvanse (Another type or Ritlin) to cut down on binge eating. I think I'll stop by my doctor's office and get me a fist full. Here is to increased productivity because sleep is way overrated. Besides I'll have an eternity to sleep when I'm dead !!!
Since I work from Home I have a pickup. I bought an old 99 Dodge RAM 1500 Lariat Pickup 2x4 for 900 dollars. It has the 318 engine and I can drive around 5 or so people in it. Since I don't have to drive back and forth to work. Also most the time I ride one of my motorcycles when the weather is nice. A pickup is more practical and it seems the US automakers are getting out of the small pickup truck market. My pickup I use to pull a landscape trailer and I go out and cut down and collect wood because I burn wood to stay warm since oil is very expensive. I wouldn't have an SUV total waste of money.
Just keep sending the rovers, robots and satellites and keep human kind safe and sound on planet earth. Mars is a place that is not hospitible to human life. Not enough atmosphere to shield from radiation. Not enough O2 to breathe. The average temp is -80 F. I experienced that temp once on the planet earth and I never even want to feel any approaching that temp. I though -60 was cold until I felt -80. No way too cold. Not to mention there is no food or even running water. I think what we have been doing is working. If you want to send people to a lifeless place send them to the moon. Lot closer to earth but still a long way from home. Even sending people to Antarctica is a longs ways away from civilization and if emergency surgery is needed you are screwed.
Is it me or is Europe anti success oriented? They sued Microsoft because they put in Internet Exploder in the OS. Crazy Europeans. There are other search engines out there. Use another one if you want really.
OK non US Citizen, It was Indiana, the next state to the east of IL. It's a law that is in fact the same law in 26 other states and including already Federal law. The law states that if you have a business and someone wants to contract with your business to help put on a function that is against your religion you can beg off. It does not allow you to run gays out of your diner, pizza joint, bar, taxi or whatever. I agree people should have the choice to beg off on attending events they don't agree with on religious grounds. As a Christian I would follow Jesus's example and probably would cater the wedding just because if you don't you will never have the chance to spread the love of Jesus if you never engage plus there is nothing wrong with making a few extra dollars...
I live between Hartford CT and Springfield MA. The insurance capital of the world. I used to be an employee of an insurance company but I can't tell you which one. I have been outsourced by a large outsourcing company and I was an employee of that company for 3 years. They brought me back as a contractor for that large outsourcing company for the last 5 years. Same job / pay no benefits. Most of the grunt work done has been sent over seas to the Sub continent. I work from home now so at least I can save on the price of gas but of course I have to heat the house when I'm home so nothing is really saved there. I challenge any of these Senators to go into any of the insurance companies in Hartford or Springfield and look around. Figure out the ratio of American citizens to foriegn workers on H1B Visas. I would guess it's almost 7 out of 10 workers are on H1B visas now. Even the contracting companies (Body Shops) don't want to hire Americans because they can pay their fellow countrymen less wages and cow them better than they can American workers. That does not take into account how much work has been sent over seas. One more question: The work sent overseas, the profits from that work done over there never ever comes back into this country because the Large outsourcing firms will just claim that it's money made over there even though they are working on infrastructure over here. There is a lot to investigate but I doubt they will. Sen. Bluemthal was already on the horn asking for more H1b Visas. The Senators know which end their bread is buttered on.
I want to know what rights as citizens we have when the police come up to us after taping a police interaction and they tell you that they need to take your phone as evidence. Now a smart person before filming would make sure that their pics and vids go straight to the cloud / dropbox and so if the phone goes bye bye you at least can get to your contents ASAP and pick up another phone on Ebay. You could see your IPhone 6+ that you just purchased go away and you would not get it back till a judge released it until the Iphone 10 came out. When my daughter was 13 her IPAD was taken in for evidence and the police still have it. No arrests have been made and all that really needs to be done is an image backup of the divice can be made and the item returned. She is now 18. You can't refuse to hand over a device to the police if they tell you it's evidence. So think about it. Would you guys willingly give up your phone to the police? Personally me, I would go down swinging.... I know the constitution says they can't deny you property without due process.
I guess the police of the world have all been militarized. And police feel that the whole universe and physics revolve around them and what they do. So much for people having to call first responders for life and death emergencies because they are worried about an alleged bomb. So next time a swatting happens do we have to worry about local cell service to terminate? Lets just say that the terrorist have already won. Because non of us live in a free society and we used to before 9/11 and our police forces were more than happy to make it this way.
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All they needed to do is make sure that their certified drivers are slipstreamed into any updates and not just the MS generic ones.
Why the fuck do our cars need to be connected to the internet of things. Cars work when they have the least amount of electrical components hooked to them. Carburetors were great and easy to troubleshoot, fix and rebuild. Then came fuel injections and those pesky injectors cost big bucks to replace sometimes more than the car is worth and all the new ones are computer controlled. Now all our cars have black boxes in them and when I go to the emissions station to get cerified they hook to the box and it rats me out. (Of course I clear out the info about 2 weeks before I go and run around a bit ) All of hat has been followed up by our vehicles that are on the internet Onstar and the like. guess what folds A Holes all over the world are taking notice and car jacking has just gotten much easier. Hell I don't even have to tamper with the brakes if I want to kill someone all I have to do is notice when they drive away hack in notice were they are and when they power through a curve I can add a little more juice and kill the brakes then let nature takes it course. So this all begs the question? Why. We don't we divorce our vehicle's operations from communications ability, ie a firewall? Is any of really needed. I personally don't drive all that much. I work from home. I have a 99 Dodge pickup truck and 2 Harley's we really need to reevaluate where we are going with all this...
1. Live in your work cube. 2. Buy an RV and or school bus and park it at Wallmart I believe they let campers park in their lots for free over night. 3. Live in your car. 4. Live in a tent. 5. Move out of CA as there are already too many people living there and and the land cannot support that many people and it's a natural and man made disaster in the making.
The Metals market has dropped through the floor. All I can say is in CT we send it all to trash to energy plant and the metals come out the bottom. More electricity means less trash around here.....
All of this just a money grab. And a promise to be off fossil fuels by the end of the century? Who knows what's going to happen in 80 years and making promises for those people is just wrong...
I took German in High School and College and I was told back then you had to pass a national board test on German fluency. Of course that was when Germany was called West Germany and not the East has been incorporated and more people not as fluent in German as they are in Russian. So maybe Germany is looking to align their process and business more and more in English. I don't know but I wish I could have gone to Germany to go to school and not have to pass that pesky National German Proficiency test.
The Government has all this student aid and the Government loans. All schools make sure they maximize the amount of monies they grab from the Government. There seems to be no oversight on the schools spending habits. The schools are increasingly building building but more than just functional and grean buildings they are building them with marble and granite. No oversight on their spending on salaries. The schools spend money like drunken sailors. When I went to school the cost was like 800 dollars a year for tuition and fees. The government paid all of that and gave me 1500 dollars a semester just for showing up. Yes I was a vet and my home state of CT pays for tuition for all vets who served in a war zone to state schools. The school I went to costs now like 10K a year for tuition and fees. In 25 years it's gone up that much? Has inflation been that out of control? This is all not to mention boarding costs and food charges. (Which I did not incur) So the way I see things if the Government is subsidizing the schools they need to take a closer look at how the money is being used. One more pet peeve here. My daughter is starting college up in the fall. The federal student loan program limits the amount that kids can put in for. The limit is 5500 dollars at around 1 or 2 percent money. But the government takes 500 of that money and charges it to the kids as a fee so actually they are only getting 5000 a year from the feds and getting charged 500 right off the top as administrative fees(taxes?)
Obama has not only used executive orders but he is also using rule / law verification / guidelines to the various departments on how to operate. In other words he is telling them how to operate / interpret various laws that govern their operations. I guess the next president can undo what Obama has put in place or wait till all this stuff eventually makes it's way to the Supreme Court.
We need our politicians to decriminalize the very act of being human in the US. We need to make the US the land of the free once more. We are no longer a free country as evidenced by the Patriot act. The whole legislation that makes it easier to bring down terrorist are making more and more American's felons. We put more people in Jail and Prison than any other country in the world. We created a crime out of taking out 9999 dollars at a time called structuring. Now If I wanted to take out more than 10 K from my saving and blow it all on coke that should be my business. The government is so ate up with the war on terrorism and the war on drugs and in a sick manner linked the two, that we the people are all caught up in the cross hairs. So when the FBI ask you a question any question, and you lie to them, and they can lie all they want to you, it's a felony. Think about all this the next time you are standing in line at CVS to sign for your monthly allotment of psudophed. (Oh yeah another piece of the Patriot act)
Ok my first smartphone was a windows ce phone. So I guess you would say I was on Windows before anything. Today I have a collection of smartphones. I look for bargains / steals on ebay and I jump on them. I swap the sim card out on my phones like changing underwear. It all depends on my mood. Today I'm in an IOS mood so I have my IPhone 5sl 64GB phone running. Some days it might be my Samsung Note 4 or my (gasp) Firephone. I even have 3 windows phones 2 Nokia's and 1 HTC. For me it's all about my mood and not so much the platform. So getting to my point. Tim Cook is full of shit and he has been drinking the Cupertino Coolaid. How would he know when some one switches their phone out? Who keeps those stats? I think he is pulling numbers out of his back orifice. Though there is one cool thing to note. When I log onto the AT&T wireless sight, it tells me what type of phone is presently being used for each of my 3 wireless numbers and it tells me what type of tablet is being used on my one sim card dedicated to tablet use. I doubt that Tim is getting his stats from there.
Yes every class has a different personality but it's the professor's job to motivate students and get them to perform at higher levels than they have ever done before and do this in a way that provides the students with the tools to learn to self motivate. You need to teach students how to learn and that should be a process reinforced in every class. It sounds to me this professor is burned out and it may be time for a sabbatical? lets see how the other professor does with the class and see how his personality blends? Teaching is all about personality. I'm not saying these students are not culpable but you need to deal with things every year. Then you get burned out then you take time off and recharge take some motivational coursework and then hit the ground running once again. Or get out and make your mark in the markets....
You would have thought that this was such an obvious answer that someone would have come up with this solution a long time ago. Also batteries can act as a buffer just in case of spikes too. The batteries can protect the grid from energy spikes. Now the big question is: Who is going to pay for all these batteries? I plan on adding batteries to my solar cell installation but why should I pay for grid upgrades when those bastards have been and still are over charging me. Northeast Utilities, now Eversource got a rate increase from the State of CT in a year that fuel prices have been at low levels, so low we have not seen cheap fuel in decades yet they convinced the CT DPUC board to hike the rates. They are claiming poverty because of all the solar cell installations. Bastards...
The Military used to call our cars POV's and I used to call my car a POV, POS. Then came the point of sale setups and they appropriated my acronym. Now we can go back to using POS as it's original intended purpose. BTW thanks for giving me the password, it think I might just get rich and lucky this weekend...
I so have an IPhone but I also have a couple Windows Phones and several Android phones. My favorite is the Note 3, even better now that AT&T finally upgraded it to Lollipop. Gotta have an extra couple phone with you just in case.
1. The Russians came out last week and stated that they were specifically targeting Yellowstone with nukes as a way to take out at least 2/3 of the US. They seem to think if they can get penetration with several nukes they can kick off an eruption. Crazy Russians. Maybe we do live in a glass house after all. 2. Since we seem to be able to create earth quakes by simply dumping salt water and waste water into miles deep caverns below West Texas and Oklahoma why can't we use that water to cool and solidify and artificially stabilize the magma chamber. In Iceland they were able to cool lava flows and they have saved several towns by pumping cool ocean water on the on coming lava flows. You would think that we can truly become masters of this planet.
The guy is clueless. He looks like a human dildo. I'm a republican and I hate the guy. He is the best case scenario for term limits.
In the end it might mean we have to actually pay for content. I put up with adds so I can get free content. Best way to cut down on the adds, block the auto flash on your web browsers and it will speed up page movement and you can choose what you want to engage in. Takes away lots of the ads.
Amphetamines will help anyone out. They are like smart pills. They help you focus like a laser. The US Air Force give them to their pilots so they can loiter on station longer. I just read that the FDA approved vyvanse (Another type or Ritlin) to cut down on binge eating. I think I'll stop by my doctor's office and get me a fist full. Here is to increased productivity because sleep is way overrated. Besides I'll have an eternity to sleep when I'm dead !!!
Since I work from Home I have a pickup. I bought an old 99 Dodge RAM 1500 Lariat Pickup 2x4 for 900 dollars. It has the 318 engine and I can drive around 5 or so people in it. Since I don't have to drive back and forth to work. Also most the time I ride one of my motorcycles when the weather is nice. A pickup is more practical and it seems the US automakers are getting out of the small pickup truck market. My pickup I use to pull a landscape trailer and I go out and cut down and collect wood because I burn wood to stay warm since oil is very expensive. I wouldn't have an SUV total waste of money.
Just keep sending the rovers, robots and satellites and keep human kind safe and sound on planet earth. Mars is a place that is not hospitible to human life. Not enough atmosphere to shield from radiation. Not enough O2 to breathe. The average temp is -80 F. I experienced that temp once on the planet earth and I never even want to feel any approaching that temp. I though -60 was cold until I felt -80. No way too cold. Not to mention there is no food or even running water. I think what we have been doing is working. If you want to send people to a lifeless place send them to the moon. Lot closer to earth but still a long way from home. Even sending people to Antarctica is a longs ways away from civilization and if emergency surgery is needed you are screwed.
Is it me or is Europe anti success oriented? They sued Microsoft because they put in Internet Exploder in the OS. Crazy Europeans. There are other search engines out there. Use another one if you want really.
OK non US Citizen, It was Indiana, the next state to the east of IL. It's a law that is in fact the same law in 26 other states and including already Federal law. The law states that if you have a business and someone wants to contract with your business to help put on a function that is against your religion you can beg off. It does not allow you to run gays out of your diner, pizza joint, bar, taxi or whatever. I agree people should have the choice to beg off on attending events they don't agree with on religious grounds. As a Christian I would follow Jesus's example and probably would cater the wedding just because if you don't you will never have the chance to spread the love of Jesus if you never engage plus there is nothing wrong with making a few extra dollars...
I live between Hartford CT and Springfield MA. The insurance capital of the world. I used to be an employee of an insurance company but I can't tell you which one. I have been outsourced by a large outsourcing company and I was an employee of that company for 3 years. They brought me back as a contractor for that large outsourcing company for the last 5 years. Same job / pay no benefits. Most of the grunt work done has been sent over seas to the Sub continent. I work from home now so at least I can save on the price of gas but of course I have to heat the house when I'm home so nothing is really saved there. I challenge any of these Senators to go into any of the insurance companies in Hartford or Springfield and look around. Figure out the ratio of American citizens to foriegn workers on H1B Visas. I would guess it's almost 7 out of 10 workers are on H1B visas now. Even the contracting companies (Body Shops) don't want to hire Americans because they can pay their fellow countrymen less wages and cow them better than they can American workers. That does not take into account how much work has been sent over seas. One more question: The work sent overseas, the profits from that work done over there never ever comes back into this country because the Large outsourcing firms will just claim that it's money made over there even though they are working on infrastructure over here. There is a lot to investigate but I doubt they will. Sen. Bluemthal was already on the horn asking for more H1b Visas. The Senators know which end their bread is buttered on.
I want to know what rights as citizens we have when the police come up to us after taping a police interaction and they tell you that they need to take your phone as evidence. Now a smart person before filming would make sure that their pics and vids go straight to the cloud / dropbox and so if the phone goes bye bye you at least can get to your contents ASAP and pick up another phone on Ebay. You could see your IPhone 6+ that you just purchased go away and you would not get it back till a judge released it until the Iphone 10 came out. When my daughter was 13 her IPAD was taken in for evidence and the police still have it. No arrests have been made and all that really needs to be done is an image backup of the divice can be made and the item returned. She is now 18. You can't refuse to hand over a device to the police if they tell you it's evidence. So think about it. Would you guys willingly give up your phone to the police? Personally me, I would go down swinging.... I know the constitution says they can't deny you property without due process.
I guess the police of the world have all been militarized. And police feel that the whole universe and physics revolve around them and what they do. So much for people having to call first responders for life and death emergencies because they are worried about an alleged bomb. So next time a swatting happens do we have to worry about local cell service to terminate? Lets just say that the terrorist have already won. Because non of us live in a free society and we used to before 9/11 and our police forces were more than happy to make it this way.