If they don't, jut put a Faraday cage bag around the transmitter / receiver. Problem solved.
That's one of the problems...hard it seems, to find documentation to help you locate and actually find the transmitter(s).....it seems there might be multiple ones from some posts I've read so far...
I"m thinking even more drastically.....I want to have a car that has "phone home" or any type of connectivity to outside parties FULLY DISABLED....but that seems to be getting tough to find.
I was toying with the idea of getting a Dodge Hellcat Challenger. But it comes with what they call UConnect installed...and so far, I can find no option to disable the mechanism it uses (cell phone basically) to communicate with Dodge or whomever.
This bothers me. I don't want my car to be spewing out God knows what information (GPS, speed, other telemetry) to any one in the outside world. But some mild Google searching provides surprisingly little information how to fully disable this little "feature".
I"m kinda pissed.
I'd looked at a new corvette a couple years back..and saw the same shit with OnStar...where it wasn't an option anymore, but always there. I've not looked at it in awhile, I wonder if you can more easily disable it these days?
Anyway...I find it troubling to have my car talking to the outside world. Not something I want to be available to law enforcement, insurance, or any advertisers in the area potentially.
I'm staring to think more and more about buying instead, and older late 70's muscle car..spending the cash to restore it, modernize the suspension, etc......and have a fun gas burner that way that is simpler, and much less connected.
The last movie my wife and I went to see (Deadpool) was just about $50; that's two tickets, two medium popcorns, two pops and a bag of M&Ms and a bag of sour candies. Not cheap at all, but Deadpool is the kind of movie that really is best seen with a theater full of people.
I usually eat before I go to a movie....
I"ll usually spring for a beverage, as a mixer and spike it from my flask I bring in.....
There are plenty of people to whom $50 is not problematic at all for an hour or two of entertainment. Think what dinner at a nice restaurant costs even in a medium-sized city. They could charge more and still have many thousands of customers, but are obviously searching for the sweet spot between cost and number of customers that optimizes their return.
I happen to have a very goodly amount of disposable income....$50 here and there, are random bar tabs on a weekend, much less dining out at a nice restaurant....
That being said, I just can't see "renting a movie" for $50, when if I wait just a bit longer, I can get it for like $3 or so at RedBox....
I don't mind spending money, but I still want value for my money....
Are there actually THAT many people that HAVE to see it on release day.....and can't wait for a later, more convenient day, or maybe just do like I do...and wait for it to come out on BLuRay...rent and watch in the comfort of their own home...?
Ok, while I can see using it for encrypted messages...I'm getting from reading about it, that this is more of a new thing....and I'm wondering "why?"
I mean...with modern plans, txt messaging has been unlimited and free for quite awhile now...so, why bother with a 3rd party app. that I assume you have to have both parties using for it to work?
Txt messaging is pretty much universal if you have a cell phone...right?
I'd be interested in the newer encrypted services, voice would be quite interesting..but wondering what has been the impetus to use this WhatsApp to this point?
I'd not really ever heard of it till the past 2-3 articles on Slashdot that mentioned it in the same breath as recent encryption topics.
Well...that might not be the case...they are having some MAJOR economical problems over there, that they are madly trying to cover up to the rest of the world.
Huh ? Does that mean that right now, code that is developed for one agency, doesn't get reused by another ?
Simple answer is YES.
You act at this?
It has worked this way forever really....but is getting slightly better.
But, unless this is for a new department or govt agency....most software is coming in to be built upon or added to a pile of old code/systems of legacy systems cobbled together over the years.
Most of them have at their base, old stovepipe legacy systems, or maybe multiple stovepipe systems that over the years are modified to try to talk to each other and an increasingly modern world.
Now, without getting into functionality and restrictions from old and even new laws....we just talk about how they are done.
A need is found in the govt. and requirements, usually fairly narrow are put out. Said dept uses their money for that fiscal year as budget to pay for it...a contractor bids and wins.
So, then basically the contractor will work on custom proprietary code or use COTS products, maybe customizing them or interfaces to them...or some combo of all of the above.
This code only must match the description and functionality of the contract and that is what is turned over.
Contractor and govt part ways on that one....unless some maintenance is put into place, etc.
But you don't see the govt having forethought to write into the contract that the code must be flexible, or that it must be open sourced, or that it must be able to talk to other systems, or...well, really anything about it. Just that it meets the often narrowly defined need of the contract. There isn't often money for the software to be maintained or modified or anything after contract is overwith.
And for decades now, for the most part the Federal govt has not only not been coding or developing on its own.....they actively got OUT of the tech business and do it all with contracting.
This system has pros and cons....you can get new blood in for work, but if all coders and such were Federal employees....well, they would part of the jobs for life thing, and don't really have that much incentive to keep their skills up. That happened in the past. But you get problems with not having or keeping folks around that know systems or how they're built, etc.
OH...and finally....these contracts are generally won by the lowest bidder.
Quite often, this winner is just a front company, female and/or minority owned...usually a smaller company that "partners" with the big boys, like Lockheed or Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, etc....they are the ones that provide the talent and real workers, with the front company getting a nice cut to fill out a govt. quota column on a form somewhere.
But anyway, that's how it goes. And so no...you don't see reuse, and you sure don't see release of code...hell if COTS is used, that cans that little idea right off to bat as that it is usually strictly and expensively licensed out for each use and each department.
Who is he to say what privacy and levels of encryption that the US citizens should be privy to?
Sure if you have impenetrable phones, some criminals will use them....
But do we get rid of all other devices criminals might use?
Do we round all blades and dull all knives, because some criminal might stab someone?
Do we stop letting people drive cars...because some folks might use one as a weapon and kill lots of folks?
No...we don't need any more of the Nanny State mentality, that the Govt knows best and needs full access and control over the population in order to care and protect it from itself.
It is not the job of the citizenry, nor the companies of the US to go out of their way to make things easy for the police/powers that be. You work for us, we don't work for you.
My definition is over all quality of life, and various quality of life metrics place the US behind socialism-based economies like Switzerland, Canada, Norway, Sweden, etc.
I guess it depends on what your quality of life metrics ARE...and how you measure each of the variables.
I"m guessing they are different than mine, and both of ours are different from others spread across the US.
That's the nice thing about most states' rights in the US, if you don't like how it is done in one place, you are free to move to a state/city that is more in line with your thinking.
A more drastic step, is that no one keeps you from moving from the US to socialism based countries....except likely for their laws on immigration.
Missouri has the most relaxed alcohol laws on the books. Some cities don't allow open carry, but a big chunk of KC does and a majority of the rural towns do.
Well, until a decade or so ago....here in NOLA, we didn't even have open container laws for the cars!!
Yep, back a short while ago, if the cop pulled you over, you just handed your drink to your passenger and they couldn't nab you for drinking and driving....well, they could still test you for intoxication, but it wasn't illegal to drive with any open beverages in the car.
People who have made their lives in San Francisco, especially in the arts, have a right to stay where they are. Decades of development shouldn't be tossed aside for the sake of temporary profits - that path risks turning SF into a ghost town when the tech bubble collapses again.
While it is tough....do we always have to cater to the lowest common denominator?
Are you guaranteed to be able to live in one place all or most of your life?
With progress comes gentrification...shit happens, move on with your life.
And if things do crash again, that is just the ebb and flow of life, it moves in cycles. If it collapses, guess what...that will mean new opportunities for new folks, to buy cheaper, and bring in their own new endeavors for housing and business in that area.
Suspend your disbelief for a moment, and trust that I'm a highly qualified developer, the type these places would love to have. Why should I move? I'm being made reasonably happy where I am right now but could be made happier. The problem these companies have is finding loyal people, shouldn't they be looking for solutions to that problem? Is it so inconceivable that one of those solutions could be to find people like me in various places; places that may actually work for them in the end because I won't need the salary that someone local would?
Whew...wondering how old you are?
I have never, in my professional career, assumed that the job, or a better job would have to make allowances for ME.
If I want the better job, and pay...I go to it.
Now, granted, telework is becoming much more of a viable option than it used to be, but it certainly can't be assumed that every job will allow for this mode of work, if for nothing else, security measures.
The question you have to ask yourself...would more money and all make you happier or not?
If so, then no...you cannot expect the company to make allowances for you. You are not special.
Not everyone gets a trophy, and most people/businesses in the world are not out to make you happy. They want a job done, and will pay $x for it.
Loyal , workplace and jobs.....are mutually exclusive terms and have been for a few decades.
That ideal of a job for life and one career, are long over and have been since at least the last 60's or 70's. So is living in one place for most/all of your life too....you have to be mobile in order to move up the scale generally.
All that being said...maybe things will change somewhat...and if there is this dearth of talent out there, maybe company's will start making adjustments for gathering and retaining talent.
But I wouldn't count on it any time soon....the world doesn't care how happy you are.
Every time I read one of these articles I expect to look in my local paper and find all kinds of wonderful enticements to leave where I am and expand my career elsewhere. Or even better, new local companies or companies willing to hire remotely. Alas, they are never there. And I am a person that is historically very loyal to the company that I work for.
Well, I think I see the problem you're having.
You have to be willing to MOVE and go to where the good jobs are....
You can't expect these good jobs to come hunting you......
If you go around suggesting what other people should do for their health I hope you are equally as willing to accept that people tell you what you should do for your health.
I absolutely DO!!
I'm overweight a bit myself right now...when I get like this, my friends often give me some shit, saying "you're turning into a fat bastard" or other needling.
It is meant in good nature as that its a normal bunch of guys hazing each other a bit, but there is the grain of truth within that I see.
It does help me to get my ass back on track and start eating well again, and exercising and generally trying to have a more healthy lifestyle.
No, I don't curl up in a ball and cry if someone says something bad about me. I was raised to have a bit thicker skin as we seemed to do in the older days.
If it is someone I don't know or respect, then their comments slide off my back without much a notice.
For folks I care about and their opinions, I take it as note that I need to do something.
But no, I don't really shrink in fear if someone says something bad to me, or if they offer constructive criticism.....I know what to listen to, and often it DOES help me to notice things about myself, that I might otherwise not notice immediately as I have my attention to living life, working, etc.....
I think it already IS pretty much a protected class as you put it.
If you merely suggest that people, need to lose weight, for their health and yes, even for a better appearance, you catch hell for "fat shaming" or whatever the SJW term for it is today.
Don't get me wrong, no one should be taunted or teased, but these days, you can't even give advice that used to be noted as common sense anymore without offending someone or hurting little Suzy's self esteem.
We are actually going out of our way to tell fat kids that they "look ok" and should be proud of looking obese, out of shape and generally unhealthy.
More and more people are not only accepting fat and unhealthy as the new norm, but are actively promoting it in our kids today.
Common sense has gone out the window, with everyone dancing on eggshells to try not to offend anyone.
Since then it has been completely rewritten. Here is a timeline [wikipedia.org]. SQL Server is a seriously good product. Not just a seriously good product for Microsoft, but a seriously good product. It's SQL for when NOSQL is not enough.
I'd rather have Oracle or Postgresql......not Access on steroids.
No, not new, and not really slang, but more commonly used in the UK than US. Pronounced to rhyme with "ow" (as in, "that hurts!"). Meaning "noisy dispute or quarrel."
Ok, thanks..interesting.
Perhaps we need to have a UK to US translation service on Slashdot, when UK'ers or other foreigners post stories.
France is to close down its oldest nuclear power plant, at the center of a row with neighboring Germany and Switzerland
I'm a bit confused by the article...are they saying there is a row of multiple nuclear facilities between France, Germany and Switzerland...and one of them is unsafe and to be shut down?
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That's one of the problems...hard it seems, to find documentation to help you locate and actually find the transmitter(s).....it seems there might be multiple ones from some posts I've read so far...
I was toying with the idea of getting a Dodge Hellcat Challenger. But it comes with what they call UConnect installed...and so far, I can find no option to disable the mechanism it uses (cell phone basically) to communicate with Dodge or whomever.
This bothers me. I don't want my car to be spewing out God knows what information (GPS, speed, other telemetry) to any one in the outside world. But some mild Google searching provides surprisingly little information how to fully disable this little "feature".
I"m kinda pissed.
I'd looked at a new corvette a couple years back..and saw the same shit with OnStar...where it wasn't an option anymore, but always there. I've not looked at it in awhile, I wonder if you can more easily disable it these days?
Anyway...I find it troubling to have my car talking to the outside world. Not something I want to be available to law enforcement, insurance, or any advertisers in the area potentially.
I'm staring to think more and more about buying instead, and older late 70's muscle car..spending the cash to restore it, modernize the suspension, etc......and have a fun gas burner that way that is simpler, and much less connected.
I usually eat before I go to a movie....
I"ll usually spring for a beverage, as a mixer and spike it from my flask I bring in.....
I happen to have a very goodly amount of disposable income....$50 here and there, are random bar tabs on a weekend, much less dining out at a nice restaurant....
That being said, I just can't see "renting a movie" for $50, when if I wait just a bit longer, I can get it for like $3 or so at RedBox....
I don't mind spending money, but I still want value for my money....
Are there actually THAT many people that HAVE to see it on release day.....and can't wait for a later, more convenient day, or maybe just do like I do...and wait for it to come out on BLuRay...rent and watch in the comfort of their own home...?
Same here....I enjoy motorcycles and sports cars, I'm not really thrilled nor longing for automation on my vehicles.....
I like things fast and with a fun exhaust note, and yes, especially on the bike, the smells of the thing too!!
I mean...with modern plans, txt messaging has been unlimited and free for quite awhile now...so, why bother with a 3rd party app. that I assume you have to have both parties using for it to work?
Txt messaging is pretty much universal if you have a cell phone...right?
I'd be interested in the newer encrypted services, voice would be quite interesting..but wondering what has been the impetus to use this WhatsApp to this point?
I'd not really ever heard of it till the past 2-3 articles on Slashdot that mentioned it in the same breath as recent encryption topics.
Well...that might not be the case...they are having some MAJOR economical problems over there, that they are madly trying to cover up to the rest of the world.
Is this something Uber is only doing in China?
I've never heard the company subsidizing drivers here in the US???
That part sounds a bit fishy to me....
Simple answer is YES.
You act at this?
It has worked this way forever really....but is getting slightly better.
But, unless this is for a new department or govt agency....most software is coming in to be built upon or added to a pile of old code/systems of legacy systems cobbled together over the years.
Most of them have at their base, old stovepipe legacy systems, or maybe multiple stovepipe systems that over the years are modified to try to talk to each other and an increasingly modern world.
Now, without getting into functionality and restrictions from old and even new laws....we just talk about how they are done.
A need is found in the govt. and requirements, usually fairly narrow are put out. Said dept uses their money for that fiscal year as budget to pay for it...a contractor bids and wins.
So, then basically the contractor will work on custom proprietary code or use COTS products, maybe customizing them or interfaces to them...or some combo of all of the above.
This code only must match the description and functionality of the contract and that is what is turned over.
Contractor and govt part ways on that one....unless some maintenance is put into place, etc.
But you don't see the govt having forethought to write into the contract that the code must be flexible, or that it must be open sourced, or that it must be able to talk to other systems, or...well, really anything about it. Just that it meets the often narrowly defined need of the contract. There isn't often money for the software to be maintained or modified or anything after contract is overwith.
And for decades now, for the most part the Federal govt has not only not been coding or developing on its own.....they actively got OUT of the tech business and do it all with contracting.
This system has pros and cons....you can get new blood in for work, but if all coders and such were Federal employees....well, they would part of the jobs for life thing, and don't really have that much incentive to keep their skills up. That happened in the past. But you get problems with not having or keeping folks around that know systems or how they're built, etc.
OH...and finally....these contracts are generally won by the lowest bidder.
Quite often, this winner is just a front company, female and/or minority owned...usually a smaller company that "partners" with the big boys, like Lockheed or Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, etc....they are the ones that provide the talent and real workers, with the front company getting a nice cut to fill out a govt. quota column on a form somewhere.
But anyway, that's how it goes. And so no...you don't see reuse, and you sure don't see release of code...hell if COTS is used, that cans that little idea right off to bat as that it is usually strictly and expensively licensed out for each use and each department.
Who is he to say what privacy and levels of encryption that the US citizens should be privy to?
Sure if you have impenetrable phones, some criminals will use them....
But do we get rid of all other devices criminals might use?
Do we round all blades and dull all knives, because some criminal might stab someone?
Do we stop letting people drive cars...because some folks might use one as a weapon and kill lots of folks?
No...we don't need any more of the Nanny State mentality, that the Govt knows best and needs full access and control over the population in order to care and protect it from itself.
It is not the job of the citizenry, nor the companies of the US to go out of their way to make things easy for the police/powers that be. You work for us, we don't work for you.
Sorry, but FU....
Why would a nuke response be impossible?
If we traced it back to ISIS in Syria, I can pretty much guarantee most of Syria will be a big sheet of glass in a short time period.
No...those aren't SJW's...they are just lesbians.
I guess it depends on what your quality of life metrics ARE...and how you measure each of the variables.
I"m guessing they are different than mine, and both of ours are different from others spread across the US.
That's the nice thing about most states' rights in the US, if you don't like how it is done in one place, you are free to move to a state/city that is more in line with your thinking.
A more drastic step, is that no one keeps you from moving from the US to socialism based countries....except likely for their laws on immigration.
Well, until a decade or so ago....here in NOLA, we didn't even have open container laws for the cars!!
Yep, back a short while ago, if the cop pulled you over, you just handed your drink to your passenger and they couldn't nab you for drinking and driving....well, they could still test you for intoxication, but it wasn't illegal to drive with any open beverages in the car.
While it is tough....do we always have to cater to the lowest common denominator?
Are you guaranteed to be able to live in one place all or most of your life?
With progress comes gentrification...shit happens, move on with your life.
And if things do crash again, that is just the ebb and flow of life, it moves in cycles. If it collapses, guess what...that will mean new opportunities for new folks, to buy cheaper, and bring in their own new endeavors for housing and business in that area.
You can't or shouldn't mandate change prevention.
Wow, I thought New Orleans was about the only place left in the US that didn't have open container laws, where you can drink in public.
Do they in Chicago also have "to go" cups so you can take your drink with you out of the bars? Drive through daiquiri shops?
Whew...wondering how old you are?
I have never, in my professional career, assumed that the job, or a better job would have to make allowances for ME.
If I want the better job, and pay...I go to it.
Now, granted, telework is becoming much more of a viable option than it used to be, but it certainly can't be assumed that every job will allow for this mode of work, if for nothing else, security measures.
The question you have to ask yourself...would more money and all make you happier or not?
If so, then no...you cannot expect the company to make allowances for you. You are not special.
Not everyone gets a trophy, and most people/businesses in the world are not out to make you happy. They want a job done, and will pay $x for it.
Loyal , workplace and jobs.....are mutually exclusive terms and have been for a few decades.
That ideal of a job for life and one career, are long over and have been since at least the last 60's or 70's. So is living in one place for most/all of your life too....you have to be mobile in order to move up the scale generally.
All that being said...maybe things will change somewhat...and if there is this dearth of talent out there, maybe company's will start making adjustments for gathering and retaining talent.
But I wouldn't count on it any time soon....the world doesn't care how happy you are.
Well, I think I see the problem you're having.
You have to be willing to MOVE and go to where the good jobs are....
You can't expect these good jobs to come hunting you......
I absolutely DO!!
I'm overweight a bit myself right now...when I get like this, my friends often give me some shit, saying "you're turning into a fat bastard" or other needling.
It is meant in good nature as that its a normal bunch of guys hazing each other a bit, but there is the grain of truth within that I see.
It does help me to get my ass back on track and start eating well again, and exercising and generally trying to have a more healthy lifestyle.
No, I don't curl up in a ball and cry if someone says something bad about me. I was raised to have a bit thicker skin as we seemed to do in the older days.
If it is someone I don't know or respect, then their comments slide off my back without much a notice.
For folks I care about and their opinions, I take it as note that I need to do something.
But no, I don't really shrink in fear if someone says something bad to me, or if they offer constructive criticism.....I know what to listen to, and often it DOES help me to notice things about myself, that I might otherwise not notice immediately as I have my attention to living life, working, etc.....
I think it already IS pretty much a protected class as you put it.
If you merely suggest that people, need to lose weight, for their health and yes, even for a better appearance, you catch hell for "fat shaming" or whatever the SJW term for it is today.
Don't get me wrong, no one should be taunted or teased, but these days, you can't even give advice that used to be noted as common sense anymore without offending someone or hurting little Suzy's self esteem.
We are actually going out of our way to tell fat kids that they "look ok" and should be proud of looking obese, out of shape and generally unhealthy.
More and more people are not only accepting fat and unhealthy as the new norm, but are actively promoting it in our kids today.
Common sense has gone out the window, with everyone dancing on eggshells to try not to offend anyone.
WFT did we get so afraid to offend anyone?
I'd rather have Oracle or Postgresql......not Access on steroids.
Ok, thanks..interesting.
Perhaps we need to have a UK to US translation service on Slashdot, when UK'ers or other foreigners post stories.
Interesting...I've never heard of row used in that manner.
I know you can row a boat, and have things lined up in a row.....but never heard "row" as a quarrel?!?
Is this some kind of new slang maybe?
I'm a bit confused by the article...are they saying there is a row of multiple nuclear facilities between France, Germany and Switzerland...and one of them is unsafe and to be shut down?
Just seems an awkward way to say that....?