...or whatever the current cueball-sized equivalent is. Large buttons, large ball that can be moved with the whole hand or all of the fingers instead of a few.
Given that three-way fixtures use two hot terminals with differing numbers of filaments tied to each, it should not be that difficult to build an LED bulb with this same design assuming they can make whatever switching circuitry small enough. It would simply operate like two separate lightbulbs in one housing.
I worked for a boss once that would attempt to claim anything and everything that an employee did that was in any way possibly related to the field that the business was in could be his property as a work-for-hire, even when his employees were hourly so there couldn't even be a claim that any work in the field of computers could be applicable to a salaried staff member.
I do not know the man in question, but I imagine that it is not impossible that his claim against Zuckerberg was something along this line. I don't say this out of any appreciation for Facebook either, for what it's worth.
If I owned a car that was susceptible to this sort of problem I would much rather the lawsuit compel the automaker to fix the problem rather than give me money. Pay the lawyers, but just fix the damn problem as a recall.
If you tried to sell me a laptop with two 9-pin serial ports I'd be overjoyed. I use my laptop to maintain network equipment and while a lot of equipment now has front-placed USB connectors for consoling-in, there are still brand-new Cisco devices like the ME3600X and 4500X that don't have USB on the front, if at all. That means breaking-out the USB to serial adapter and the serial cable.
I am aware that I'm the exception rather than the rule, but I expect that compared to tablets, there are a disproportionately large number of professionals using laptop computers that could benefit from having some of these "obsolete" ports.
I was simply pointing out something that could cause a problem if it's not researched. The more advanced the software running on the device, the greater likelihood for problems if something like some kind of security feature of the OS gets made because of a significant date mismatch.
You don't want to be the equivalent of that old Plymouth that was put into a time capsule in the late '50s, that no one considered the groundwater level fluctuation along with seasonal flooding and the car ended up a rusted hulk of junk.
The more refined, active, and complicated the thing stored, the less likely that it'll come through storage in an acceptable fashion. Electronic components fail (capacitor failure, tin whiskers), media delaminates or rots (CDs coming apart, "laser rot" in Laserdiscs), and means of playback get to be hard to find (old 16 frame-per-second film playing poorly on modern 24 frame-per-second projectors). There's a reason that despite putting it into the best environment for long-term storage, NASA used gold records with simple playback instructions for the Voyager Greetings from Earth messages. They wanted to use a simple medium that would still function essentially forever and be playable with something that someone could build themselves.
The first commercially successful optical video playback medium is the Laserdisc. It debuted in 1978. Properly stored discs that are 36 years old will still play in the final generation of Laserdisc players from the late Noughties. Those players in-turn will probably function for another 20-30 years if they're lightly used on a regular basis and maintained as needed. I expect that it will still be possible to find a Blu-Ray player fifty years from now, and that there will be some means of taking its output and turning it into something playable on a modern-of-the-time television. Hell, it might actually be easier to output over component video and reassemble through whatever is current.
A hundred years is going to be more of a crapshoot. We're still using analog radio and we still have records and reel-to-reel isn't completely dead, but I don't expect demand for spectrum will be conducive to analog radio or analog storage sources for that long, and video will be a lot worse.
If you're going to put an Raspberry Pi in there, you might as well put a small cheap LCD on it just in case they don't have HDMI.. There are some pretty cheap options, and they they'll hopefully only have to apply power (include the AC adapter).
This may be a problem, UNIX Time has some known issues with variable size. You must either use a 32-bit version capable of handling Dates higher than 2038, or you must use a 64 bit version that's able to do it right.
Personally I'd go with film. Three individual films for color, and film for audio. You can even include a whitepaper on the kind of equipment needed to playback the film, including film speed (and in case the meaning of seconds is lost, include the conversion both based on molecular spin and based on a percentage slice of the day) and how the audio works.
If you go with a digital storage medium, store it in every conceivable format possible. Blu-ray, DVD, video-CD, SD, Compact Flash, USB flash memory. For each of the optical mediums, include the whitepapers describing the encoding used. Make sure to label each format thoroughly and to note that they all contain the same information. You should probably have them professionally mastered too, not just out of a computer optical burner.
Tell that to buyers of the PowerPC 5000 series, the Performa series, or any of the "LC" series...
Apple has pursued sales in any market that they thought they could get into. When they've found the market wanting, they've dropped the product. Sometimes they come back around and pick up that market again later (ie, the Newton vs the iPod/iPhone) and other times they drop it entirely and don't look back (like the Xserve).
I doubt that a thin plastic bumper cover would dramatically impact the reception of GPS. And an antenna wire could be hidden to place the antenna where it would be exposed if needed.
As cheaply as it's made, my guess is that they'd just plant a new one, and probably make at least a half-hearted effort to check if they're being watched before approaching.
It's the black duct tape that gets me. I'm not the most skilled solderer myself, but when I make something that needs to remain durable I usually coat it in hot glue and shrink some heatshrink tubing around it so that it's protected and looks good. My most recent project like this was to physically trim down the PCB of a USB to RS-232 adapter, remove the DB9 from it, and solder the ends of a Cisco console cable in its place, reducing the size of the device that I need to use to console in to a switch. I managed to get that thing to look really nice and it's held up well too, and I was making that for just me. If I'd been making a device to go into a hostile environment (and on the outside of a car qualifies) I would have been a lot better about my packaging. Heatshrink tubing, then magnets held on by more heatshrink tubing over that, possibly having used a filler to make it difficult to disassemble, and absolutely nothing reflective or shiny.
In an hour and a half they could have pulled the rear bumper cover, tapped into the license plate lamp, and installed the device behind the thin rear bumper cover where it would never have been noticed even when the car is sent for scrap. It makes me wonder if the installation of the device at the checkpoint and the search at the checkpoint were conducted by different parties, or if a party to the search was also acting as an agent for someone else and planted this as the search wound-down without the knowledge of anyone else involved in the search.
Perhaps the point of the exercise is to make it clear that they're paying attention to her, which could effectively neutralize her from any actions that they think she'll take. It's not very expensive to send a couple of detectives or uniformed officers to walk up to a person of interest, confirm who they are, and attempt to get them to answer where they're going. That can be a simple matter of a dispatcher with access to the tracker data knowing who's nearby and can be diverted. The officers in question don't even need to know why they're approaching her if they're willing to follow the order to do it.
You are completely incorrect. There are LOADS of places that you could stick this thing. There are even places that you could stick this thing where you could power it from the car's electrical system, or use the car's electrical system to charge the battery when the ignition is on.
It's not all that difficult to open a hood. Sometimes you can stick your hand up from below the bumper cover, in between the radiator core support and the grille, and reach the mechanism. Other times you may need a tool, but it's easier to open a hood than it is to open a door.
Do you know where your antenna mechanism sits? There's a bit of a compartment between the inner fender liner, the outer fender, and the firewall. On some cars it can be accessed when the front door is open.
Some cars have plastic inner fender liners between the metal fender liner and the wheel, and often those are almost toolless to remove and install.
Most cars have a metallic inner bumper behind a layer of plastic or styrofoam that's hidden behind the bumper cover. On many cars one could reach that area from below even easier than reaching for the hood latch, and with little more than an AC condenser coil and some lights there's no reason for a mechanic to go poking in there, so a tracker would probably go unnoticed for some time if placed there.
Lastly, if they'd used a more automotive-looking project case they could have just attached it right next to the PCM under the hood, even tapping into a 12V wire to power it.
This was placed where it was placed because someone was in an awful hurry. It was probably a busy public place, and they probably couldn't use cover-of-darkness, so it was either in a well-lit area at night or during the day. I don't expect that whoever did this had much of a budget. No project case, not even heatshrink wrapping to make it look like it belongs, just some amateurish use of black duct tape that would stand out as not belonging to even casual people. Plus the whole poor placement aspect should mean that they weren't especially well trained to do this either.
...is that they're basically taking an issue that most people either didn't really know about or didn't really care about too strongly, and are shoving it into everyone else's faces, so that they now have a reason to take a stance against it?
Several years ago I remember a protest in an open-carry state about a public library attempting to prohibit open-carry in the library. Things were nice and peaceful and respectful, until some jackass wearing hunting camo and leather two sashes covered in shotgun shells came in carrying a pump-action twelve gauge. Any goodwill that the previous firearms enthusiasts created was utterly destroyed by one jerk that decided to push the limits.
Guns are a lot of fun to shoot. There are times when guns serve a legitimate use. On the other hand, if guns are introduced into situations where they have no business then it's not exactly a surprise when movements to prohibit them or to confiscate them come to be.
I've found that the various iterations of Bauhaus/Tones on Tail/Love and Rockets work well for zoning out, even with lyrics. The various Resurrection Hex remixes are very effective.
I think the problem was the way the sprite for the gun bobbed and weaved in front of you.
Compared to playing any of the Wolfenstein-based games it was nice to my eyes, as it was not nearly as unrealistically still as even Rise of the Triad...
For a third-party to work it has to offer more benefits than drawbacks over existing parties. Most third-parties either are single-issue parties that couldn't effectively govern given their lack of stance on other issues, or have declared positions on too many issues that the majority of the voting public do not support.
The closest that an actual third-party has gotten to success since the modern two major parties took over was when a popular former-member of one of those parties created his own party, but even his ambitions were not enough to make that party a success.
Yeah, if someone's security conscious then they're making choices about what they share over a given medium, so that they don't share that which doesn't need to be shared that way to start with.
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...or whatever the current cueball-sized equivalent is. Large buttons, large ball that can be moved with the whole hand or all of the fingers instead of a few.
Given that three-way fixtures use two hot terminals with differing numbers of filaments tied to each, it should not be that difficult to build an LED bulb with this same design assuming they can make whatever switching circuitry small enough. It would simply operate like two separate lightbulbs in one housing.
So you're saying, they found a way to make 'em leak oil?
(the old joke being, "Why don't the British build computers? Because they haven't figured out how to make 'em leak oil yet.")
I worked for a boss once that would attempt to claim anything and everything that an employee did that was in any way possibly related to the field that the business was in could be his property as a work-for-hire, even when his employees were hourly so there couldn't even be a claim that any work in the field of computers could be applicable to a salaried staff member.
I do not know the man in question, but I imagine that it is not impossible that his claim against Zuckerberg was something along this line. I don't say this out of any appreciation for Facebook either, for what it's worth.
Partially because the corporate network requires Windows 7 or 8 and Active Directory for all corporate stuff.
If I owned a car that was susceptible to this sort of problem I would much rather the lawsuit compel the automaker to fix the problem rather than give me money. Pay the lawyers, but just fix the damn problem as a recall.
If you tried to sell me a laptop with two 9-pin serial ports I'd be overjoyed. I use my laptop to maintain network equipment and while a lot of equipment now has front-placed USB connectors for consoling-in, there are still brand-new Cisco devices like the ME3600X and 4500X that don't have USB on the front, if at all. That means breaking-out the USB to serial adapter and the serial cable. I am aware that I'm the exception rather than the rule, but I expect that compared to tablets, there are a disproportionately large number of professionals using laptop computers that could benefit from having some of these "obsolete" ports.
I was simply pointing out something that could cause a problem if it's not researched. The more advanced the software running on the device, the greater likelihood for problems if something like some kind of security feature of the OS gets made because of a significant date mismatch.
You don't want to be the equivalent of that old Plymouth that was put into a time capsule in the late '50s, that no one considered the groundwater level fluctuation along with seasonal flooding and the car ended up a rusted hulk of junk.
The more refined, active, and complicated the thing stored, the less likely that it'll come through storage in an acceptable fashion. Electronic components fail (capacitor failure, tin whiskers), media delaminates or rots (CDs coming apart, "laser rot" in Laserdiscs), and means of playback get to be hard to find (old 16 frame-per-second film playing poorly on modern 24 frame-per-second projectors). There's a reason that despite putting it into the best environment for long-term storage, NASA used gold records with simple playback instructions for the Voyager Greetings from Earth messages. They wanted to use a simple medium that would still function essentially forever and be playable with something that someone could build themselves.
The first commercially successful optical video playback medium is the Laserdisc. It debuted in 1978. Properly stored discs that are 36 years old will still play in the final generation of Laserdisc players from the late Noughties. Those players in-turn will probably function for another 20-30 years if they're lightly used on a regular basis and maintained as needed. I expect that it will still be possible to find a Blu-Ray player fifty years from now, and that there will be some means of taking its output and turning it into something playable on a modern-of-the-time television. Hell, it might actually be easier to output over component video and reassemble through whatever is current.
A hundred years is going to be more of a crapshoot. We're still using analog radio and we still have records and reel-to-reel isn't completely dead, but I don't expect demand for spectrum will be conducive to analog radio or analog storage sources for that long, and video will be a lot worse.
There were some rather large protests in a suburb of St. Louis recently, and they did make the national and international news...
This may be a problem, UNIX Time has some known issues with variable size. You must either use a 32-bit version capable of handling Dates higher than 2038, or you must use a 64 bit version that's able to do it right.
Personally I'd go with film. Three individual films for color, and film for audio. You can even include a whitepaper on the kind of equipment needed to playback the film, including film speed (and in case the meaning of seconds is lost, include the conversion both based on molecular spin and based on a percentage slice of the day) and how the audio works.
If you go with a digital storage medium, store it in every conceivable format possible. Blu-ray, DVD, video-CD, SD, Compact Flash, USB flash memory. For each of the optical mediums, include the whitepapers describing the encoding used. Make sure to label each format thoroughly and to note that they all contain the same information. You should probably have them professionally mastered too, not just out of a computer optical burner.
Tell that to buyers of the PowerPC 5000 series, the Performa series, or any of the "LC" series...
Apple has pursued sales in any market that they thought they could get into. When they've found the market wanting, they've dropped the product. Sometimes they come back around and pick up that market again later (ie, the Newton vs the iPod/iPhone) and other times they drop it entirely and don't look back (like the Xserve).
Isn't Thunderbolt related to mini-Displayport?
I doubt that a thin plastic bumper cover would dramatically impact the reception of GPS. And an antenna wire could be hidden to place the antenna where it would be exposed if needed.
As cheaply as it's made, my guess is that they'd just plant a new one, and probably make at least a half-hearted effort to check if they're being watched before approaching.
It's the black duct tape that gets me. I'm not the most skilled solderer myself, but when I make something that needs to remain durable I usually coat it in hot glue and shrink some heatshrink tubing around it so that it's protected and looks good. My most recent project like this was to physically trim down the PCB of a USB to RS-232 adapter, remove the DB9 from it, and solder the ends of a Cisco console cable in its place, reducing the size of the device that I need to use to console in to a switch. I managed to get that thing to look really nice and it's held up well too, and I was making that for just me. If I'd been making a device to go into a hostile environment (and on the outside of a car qualifies) I would have been a lot better about my packaging. Heatshrink tubing, then magnets held on by more heatshrink tubing over that, possibly having used a filler to make it difficult to disassemble, and absolutely nothing reflective or shiny.
In an hour and a half they could have pulled the rear bumper cover, tapped into the license plate lamp, and installed the device behind the thin rear bumper cover where it would never have been noticed even when the car is sent for scrap. It makes me wonder if the installation of the device at the checkpoint and the search at the checkpoint were conducted by different parties, or if a party to the search was also acting as an agent for someone else and planted this as the search wound-down without the knowledge of anyone else involved in the search.
Perhaps the point of the exercise is to make it clear that they're paying attention to her, which could effectively neutralize her from any actions that they think she'll take. It's not very expensive to send a couple of detectives or uniformed officers to walk up to a person of interest, confirm who they are, and attempt to get them to answer where they're going. That can be a simple matter of a dispatcher with access to the tracker data knowing who's nearby and can be diverted. The officers in question don't even need to know why they're approaching her if they're willing to follow the order to do it.
You are completely incorrect. There are LOADS of places that you could stick this thing. There are even places that you could stick this thing where you could power it from the car's electrical system, or use the car's electrical system to charge the battery when the ignition is on.
It's not all that difficult to open a hood. Sometimes you can stick your hand up from below the bumper cover, in between the radiator core support and the grille, and reach the mechanism. Other times you may need a tool, but it's easier to open a hood than it is to open a door.
Do you know where your antenna mechanism sits? There's a bit of a compartment between the inner fender liner, the outer fender, and the firewall. On some cars it can be accessed when the front door is open.
Some cars have plastic inner fender liners between the metal fender liner and the wheel, and often those are almost toolless to remove and install.
Most cars have a metallic inner bumper behind a layer of plastic or styrofoam that's hidden behind the bumper cover. On many cars one could reach that area from below even easier than reaching for the hood latch, and with little more than an AC condenser coil and some lights there's no reason for a mechanic to go poking in there, so a tracker would probably go unnoticed for some time if placed there.
Lastly, if they'd used a more automotive-looking project case they could have just attached it right next to the PCM under the hood, even tapping into a 12V wire to power it.
This was placed where it was placed because someone was in an awful hurry. It was probably a busy public place, and they probably couldn't use cover-of-darkness, so it was either in a well-lit area at night or during the day. I don't expect that whoever did this had much of a budget. No project case, not even heatshrink wrapping to make it look like it belongs, just some amateurish use of black duct tape that would stand out as not belonging to even casual people. Plus the whole poor placement aspect should mean that they weren't especially well trained to do this either.
...is that they're basically taking an issue that most people either didn't really know about or didn't really care about too strongly, and are shoving it into everyone else's faces, so that they now have a reason to take a stance against it?
Several years ago I remember a protest in an open-carry state about a public library attempting to prohibit open-carry in the library. Things were nice and peaceful and respectful, until some jackass wearing hunting camo and leather two sashes covered in shotgun shells came in carrying a pump-action twelve gauge. Any goodwill that the previous firearms enthusiasts created was utterly destroyed by one jerk that decided to push the limits.
Guns are a lot of fun to shoot. There are times when guns serve a legitimate use. On the other hand, if guns are introduced into situations where they have no business then it's not exactly a surprise when movements to prohibit them or to confiscate them come to be.
I've found that the various iterations of Bauhaus/Tones on Tail/Love and Rockets work well for zoning out, even with lyrics. The various Resurrection Hex remixes are very effective.
I think the problem was the way the sprite for the gun bobbed and weaved in front of you.
Compared to playing any of the Wolfenstein-based games it was nice to my eyes, as it was not nearly as unrealistically still as even Rise of the Triad...
Especially if they're your own, and those around you become nauseated because of them, right?
...wanna cyber?
For a third-party to work it has to offer more benefits than drawbacks over existing parties. Most third-parties either are single-issue parties that couldn't effectively govern given their lack of stance on other issues, or have declared positions on too many issues that the majority of the voting public do not support.
The closest that an actual third-party has gotten to success since the modern two major parties took over was when a popular former-member of one of those parties created his own party, but even his ambitions were not enough to make that party a success.
Yeah, if someone's security conscious then they're making choices about what they share over a given medium, so that they don't share that which doesn't need to be shared that way to start with.