Maybe what they are trying to do is get the precedent for a kill switch in a privately owned vehicle (planes and boats), and then expand that to cars later.
I still don't understand how they could have a remotely activated kill switch on a marine diesel engine, since with a mechanical fuel pump or a gravity fed fuel system, they don't need any electricity to run. No EMP, nothing to hack.
Even if they use ethanol from algae, hemp, switchgrass, or sugar cane, this might reduce our need for oil, but it can't replace oil used for other things like plastic.
If this is made using ethanol from corn, then diesel is used in the production of this, and it causes food prices to increase.
What is wrong with using a vegetable oil in a diesel engine? That is a bio-fuel with low processing requirements.
If they have something that can disable a plane, how do the prevent malicious usage? And then how can you prevent that kill switch from being disabled?
Boats aren't that complex, especially if you have a diesel engine, where electricity is not required. Airplanes could be made without that special "feature".
Um, the LCC Rocket isn't a tandem seat car, since it is a single person car.
But, yes, that does quite fit in between a motorcycle and a compact car. Just stretch it a bit to fit a second person, and that would be pretty close to what I was thinking of.
I also wonder why there aren't any tandem cars that go between a small compact car and a motorcycle.
Why do the smallest cars need so many safety features when you could also get a motorcycle that has... pretty much nothing in terms of safety features.
What the GP was describing is pretty much an enclosed motorcycle.
Many of these schemes can't prevent copying data, like CSS, online authentication or dongles, so they try to prevent execution.
Even when used legitimately, a computer is going to make at least one copy of the program/data, first into main memory, then into the various levels of caches.
Too bad for you that the ISPs are a monopoly due to "control by government busy-bodies". Or are you suggesting that every single ISP/cable company/power company/water company/sewage company be required to run their own pipes to your house?
Don't like it, go elsewhere, like russia.
If you run from injustice instead of fighting it, guess what, you are going to lose.
Um, then you get into the classic "this thing X can only be sold with a proper license", thus saying "we are not preventing it from being sold", but then you make it impossible to get a license.
The proper question here, is "why shouldn't p2p be allowed"? Once you accept that certain methods for transferring data are "not legal", then it is trivial to expand that list.
Minors having sex isn't a felony. The age of conesnt isn't 18 in every state, so for example in Alabama, two 16 year olds having sex is legal. And then in most states, there is a window where the 2 people have to be within a certain difference of ages, like 2-3 years difference.
A 16 year old looking at themselves in a mirror while nude is also legal. Being at a nudist camp with people under 18 is legal, in some states.
I agree that right now taking a picture of any of that is a serious felony, if it is determined to be "child porn". It shouldn't be, since self produced child porn shouldn't be illegal at all.
So I could take a song, add "Buy Coke" in the middle, and release that? No, especially not for commercial gain.
Some derivative works are protected by fair use, but they generally have to be mostly newly created content, and can't just be the website with a little bit changed, per Wikipedia.
Granted, it is older than I am, but it is indeed quite impressive. My parents gave it to me when I was about 10 years old. Since I wanted to play games on it, I had to type code in from a book.
Instant boot. Sunlight readable display. Full travel keyboard, full size keys. Ctrl key in the correct place. No screen joints to wear out.
20 hours, on 4 AA batteries. No proprietary battery.
External storage is an audio cassette. I think it uses the modem to generate the sounds for the cassette, but I could be wrong.
The OS does have a few bugs, where if a program does something bad (not using PEEK and POKE, but pure basic), or is too big to tokenize, it crashes and erases all memory. That makes writing big programs very exciting.
The OS also isn't Y2K compatible, with this year being "1908".
That is all true, if the upload link is the bottleneck.
But that isn't what the article is about. The article is looking at a download link that is saturated from P2P transfers from other people. Since the DSLAM queue isn't in the users control, it is a bit harder to prevent the P2P traffic from saturating the link.
But, why does it matter what the upload/download ratio is? P2P programs try to maximize transfer, and if several people are uploading to a single person, that could easily overwhelm a normal download pipe, like a bittorrent that has many seeders and few downloaders.
While I prefer Tomato on a WRT-54GL, that would do absolutely nothing at all to solve this issue. A router behind a modem can really only regulate the upload, and can't easily prevent a flood of data on the downstream side.
This issue is with the queue on the Telco's DSLAM, or on the other side of the cable from the modem. This is more like an invited DDOS, which no amount of filtering at or behind the modem can resolve, because the modem is getting the traffic from the DSLAM after it goes through the queue.
The only way to have QOS solve this issue would be to ask the telco to do the QOS for you, and the amount of processing power to do that nicely isn't trivial.
The window is one that reflects 70% to the ceiling and lets 20% go straight through to the floor. Is the point of that that it lets light into the room, unlike a window with closed blinds, but doesn't have too much light going onto the floor like an open window?
It really looks like a light tube with a fancy projector on the end.
Actually, it does sound like the new thing is that projector at the end of the light tube, which creates a natural window appearance on an interior wall.
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I completely, 100% agree with you.
Hmm, an easier, simpler method:
Car loaded with explosives.
Maybe what they are trying to do is get the precedent for a kill switch in a privately owned vehicle (planes and boats), and then expand that to cars later.
I still don't understand how they could have a remotely activated kill switch on a marine diesel engine, since with a mechanical fuel pump or a gravity fed fuel system, they don't need any electricity to run. No EMP, nothing to hack.
Even if they use ethanol from algae, hemp, switchgrass, or sugar cane, this might reduce our need for oil, but it can't replace oil used for other things like plastic.
If this is made using ethanol from corn, then diesel is used in the production of this, and it causes food prices to increase.
What is wrong with using a vegetable oil in a diesel engine? That is a bio-fuel with low processing requirements.
If they have something that can disable a plane, how do the prevent malicious usage?
And then how can you prevent that kill switch from being disabled?
Boats aren't that complex, especially if you have a diesel engine, where electricity is not required.
Airplanes could be made without that special "feature".
Um, the LCC Rocket isn't a tandem seat car, since it is a single person car.
But, yes, that does quite fit in between a motorcycle and a compact car. Just stretch it a bit to fit a second person, and that would be pretty close to what I was thinking of.
Thanks for the pointer, that is a cool car.
Except the smart car doesn't have tandem seating.
... pretty much nothing in terms of safety features.
I also wonder why there aren't any tandem cars that go between a small compact car and a motorcycle.
Why do the smallest cars need so many safety features when you could also get a motorcycle that has
What the GP was describing is pretty much an enclosed motorcycle.
Chuck Norris's kick is so strong it can strip the CSS from a page.
Many of these schemes can't prevent copying data, like CSS, online authentication or dongles, so they try to prevent execution.
Even when used legitimately, a computer is going to make at least one copy of the program/data, first into main memory, then into the various levels of caches.
If you run from injustice instead of fighting it, guess what, you are going to lose.
Even worse: They want to see our children naked!
Please will someone (aside from the TSA and pedophiles) please think of the children!
Would the recorded images of people under 18 be considered child porn?
Hence the true psychopaths in government try to reduce guns in the hands of law-abiding people through "gun-control"
Crime is the excuse, and that sounds good to ignorant people.
Just look at England with all of the CCTVs(Is my sig ironic now...?) and the antisocial behavior law.
Um, then you get into the classic "this thing X can only be sold with a proper license", thus saying "we are not preventing it from being sold", but then you make it impossible to get a license.
The proper question here, is "why shouldn't p2p be allowed"? Once you accept that certain methods for transferring data are "not legal", then it is trivial to expand that list.
Minors having sex isn't a felony. The age of conesnt isn't 18 in every state, so for example in Alabama, two 16 year olds having sex is legal. And then in most states, there is a window where the 2 people have to be within a certain difference of ages, like 2-3 years difference.
A 16 year old looking at themselves in a mirror while nude is also legal. Being at a nudist camp with people under 18 is legal, in some states.
I agree that right now taking a picture of any of that is a serious felony, if it is determined to be "child porn". It shouldn't be, since self produced child porn shouldn't be illegal at all.
Then you are saying that people under 18 can't take a nude picture of ... themselves?
Or 2 people having sex, where both are under 18, can't record that?
So why is the original act (being nude, sex) legal, while a recording of that act a felony, with a life sentence as a "Sex Offender"?
Even if that were the case, and the ISP did change 30%, isn't that also fraud, since they serve the page as if it were coming from the original host?
So I could take a song, add "Buy Coke" in the middle, and release that? No, especially not for commercial gain.
Some derivative works are protected by fair use, but they generally have to be mostly newly created content, and can't just be the website with a little bit changed, per Wikipedia.
How could a consumer opt-in with a company to violate a copyright held by a third party?
/. for example. How could I opt-in with my ISP to modify the page /. sends to me? Wouldn't that be a derivative, and a copyright violation?
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Is that dangerous to someone running IE on Windows, or dangerous to the person, like scams?
It seems like they kind of mashed the 2 together, but that is McAfee, so I would expect them to exaggerate the dangers of browsing without McAfee.
Internal resistanceless batteries would make any kind of short circuit very exciting.
Granted, it is older than I am, but it is indeed quite impressive. My parents gave it to me when I was about 10 years old. Since I wanted to play games on it, I had to type code in from a book.
Instant boot. Sunlight readable display. Full travel keyboard, full size keys. Ctrl key in the correct place. No screen joints to wear out.
20 hours, on 4 AA batteries. No proprietary battery.
External storage is an audio cassette. I think it uses the modem to generate the sounds for the cassette, but I could be wrong.
The OS does have a few bugs, where if a program does something bad (not using PEEK and POKE, but pure basic), or is too big to tokenize, it crashes and erases all memory. That makes writing big programs very exciting.
The OS also isn't Y2K compatible, with this year being "1908".
That is all true, if the upload link is the bottleneck.
But that isn't what the article is about. The article is looking at a download link that is saturated from P2P transfers from other people. Since the DSLAM queue isn't in the users control, it is a bit harder to prevent the P2P traffic from saturating the link.
"usually" doesn't mean always.
My upload and download are the same.
But, why does it matter what the upload/download ratio is? P2P programs try to maximize transfer, and if several people are uploading to a single person, that could easily overwhelm a normal download pipe, like a bittorrent that has many seeders and few downloaders.
While I prefer Tomato on a WRT-54GL, that would do absolutely nothing at all to solve this issue. A router behind a modem can really only regulate the upload, and can't easily prevent a flood of data on the downstream side.
This issue is with the queue on the Telco's DSLAM, or on the other side of the cable from the modem. This is more like an invited DDOS, which no amount of filtering at or behind the modem can resolve, because the modem is getting the traffic from the DSLAM after it goes through the queue.
The only way to have QOS solve this issue would be to ask the telco to do the QOS for you, and the amount of processing power to do that nicely isn't trivial.
Agreed, I develop in Ruby on Rails full-time, and I barely understood 1/3 of that summary.
OODB = Object Oriented Database (possibly a OODB type of model) helps in translating that from specialist to mere geek.
Ah, quite right. I interpreted the picture wrong.
The window is one that reflects 70% to the ceiling and lets 20% go straight through to the floor.
Is the point of that that it lets light into the room, unlike a window with closed blinds, but doesn't have too much light going onto the floor like an open window?
That doesn't quite seem worth $5K per window.
It really looks like a light tube with a fancy projector on the end.
Actually, it does sound like the new thing is that projector at the end of the light tube, which creates a natural window appearance on an interior wall.