I replaced the battery on every phone I had that allowed me to, because I didn't, and still don't, need to replace the phone every two years. I would replace the battery in my Nexus 6 right now if I could because it's lost a noticeable amount of battery life, and again, I don't need, nor want, a new phone.
You letting a phone company sell you a new phone because you fell for their marketing is your problem, not a reason for anybody else to not want to replace their phone's battery.
I can tell you that. There have been a number of times where I've browsed the Netflix catalog for something to watch for quite awhile, and then finally said, "fuck it," and played a video game or read a book instead.
Actually, airplane autopilots are capable of navigating an entire route, both vertically and laterally, without input from the pilot (after programming and engaging it of course). The difference is that pilots don't blindly trust it like some of these car morons do.
Snowden is probably an NSA plant meant to distract us anyway. He might not even know he is, they just fed him all the crap that he's "revealing" and it's either fake, or they don't care that we know.
Think about it, has Snowden actually told us anything that we didn't already know (or suspected at least)? Who gives a crap if the NSA got hacked, it's what they do, the hack, they get hacked, and the cycle continues.
Because he's actually running an ingenious campaign. Hillary is reactionary and making only safe moves. Trump is out in front taking chances and getting attention. Hillary's tag line even has Trump's name in it! What moron does that? Trump is going to trounce her.
In my experience, unstable programs (apps) are almost always the fault of the program, not the operating system. How the operating system handles such programs can be a factor, but in Android, you just kill the program and it's fine, usually.
They should look at who programmed the apps they're using.
I deleted my Facebook account years ago and I don't miss it at all. It's a great tool for companies to exploit consumers though, that's probably its main purpose these days.
I taught myself C by staring at ROM code. I figured out all the syntax and statements of C that way. Eventually bought a standard library reference too.
How does tracking make the passenger safer? If someone gets picked up by a rapist and gets raped and murdered, THEY'RE STILL RAPED AND DEAD. Tracking didn't do a damn thing, whereas a background check MIGHT have found a history and prevented the perp from getting the job.
Besides, the tracking is all through the phones. Just tie up the passenger, turn your phone off, toss theirs in the river, goodbye tracking.
I hope the citizenry doesn't buy Uber/Lyft's BS.
I sideload AdAway and see no ads anywhere on my phone. If they do away with that option then I'll push it through and, and if that fails then I'll flash it.
This study has nothing to do with reliability, only brand recognition. Regardless of Harley's reliability, they are a very, very widely recognized brand name.
While I believe a lot of the current security is unnecessary or at the least far less useful than everyone thinks
I don't believe current security is less useful than everyone thinks, I KNOW it. If you ever spend some real time working for an airline out on the ramp or in the airplanes, you'll realize that the current security system is a smoke screen. It does absolutely nothing to keep the airplanes and airport safe. It is 100% appearance and 0% performance.
Someone could blow up an airplane quite easily, though hijacking one would be extremely difficult since the passengers would probably kill the would-be hijackers first.
Airport security today is largely window dressing. If we were to have no security at all, we would be only marginally less safe than we are with all the stupidity currently.
Let's look at a few of the points.
No liquids through the checkpoint, even if it's a SEALED WATER BOTTLE. Even if you CHUG IT IN FRONT OF THEIR FACE. I have yet to hear of a liquid explosive that you can drink. If you do have liquid in excess of 3 ounces, they confiscate it and DROP it into a garbage can. If it were a liquid explosive, this simple act would probably cause it to detonate and kill everyone anyway. Oh and lest I forget, three ounces of toothpaste is ok, but if you have four you're a terrorist and will hijack the airplane with your loaded toothbrush.
You can not have a metal butter knife, but you can have a metal fork. Genius!
Flight crew are exempt from liquid and shoe rules, but ONLY if they're in uniform. I can walk up to a checkpoint in black slacks and a shirt where they will reject my liquids, but if I bust out my uniform shirt and put it on RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEM, I can now pass though and retain my liquids. If I remove my shirt on the other side, I am subject to a re-search and confiscation of my liquids.
There are many more TSA idiocies, unfortunatly many of them I can not post. Suffice to say that they are utterly incompetent and do next to nothing to make our airplanes safer. My solution to speed security screening: abolish it altogether. Where's my prize?
To the best of my understanding, civilian flight-control RADAR isn't an "active" system. It doesn't put out a whole lot of power and look for reflections, like a military system does. It's just a receive-only system, which listens to the signals being transmitted by the planes' transponders. If a plane changes its transponder code, it effectively "becomes" a different flight (with everything that entails: the ATC would think that it's a different type of plane, etc.). Short of going and looking up in the air, there's really nothing to prevent that, aside from whatever anti-tampering provisions the transponders themselves have.
You describe the secondary radar fairly accurately, except that all sites also use a primary radar in conjunction with the secondary. Primary radar is the "active" radar that everyone visions, and is exactly how ATC handles airplanes with no transponder. They will identify a "blip" by having the airplane make a specific turn, or series of turns, and then they can tag the target on the screen to track it.
Additionally, secondary radar is not entirely passive, it transmits an interragation signal, which the transponders respond to. Transponders do not volunteer information, they also do not have any anti-tampering provisions in them. Upon initial contact with ATC, ATC gives the pilot a descrete code to enter into the transponder, allowing the ATC system to tag it. If the incorrect code is entered, or the correct code is changed, the ATC computer tags it as an unknown flight, not some random other flight. The pilot would have to randomly fall upon some other descrete code that was in use by another aircraft to be tagged as a known flight. In that case, some confusion would result, but it would hardley be havoc. In any case, an airplane can still be tracked even with the wrong transponder code, or a malfunctioning transponder.
1. Why would it have to be humanoid to have hands? Why would it need hands anyway? Tentacles would work just fine. What about telekenisis? "the force"? Something so alien that you couldn't even begin to describe or comprehend it?
2. Any more than 2 and they're not "humanoid". Legs are the best option according to our limited brain power and experience. What about something so alien that you coouldn't even begin to describe or comprehend it?
3. Why would it need to breath at all? Why would it need fire or electricity? Why would an under water creature have fins and not hands? Why not both, or neither?
Anything that advanced could take a near infinate number of forms. It would probably be so alien to us that we wouldn't even recognize it as life. Nothing says it has to breath, be carbon based, eat food or do anything at all similar to how we function. All of those are assumptions made by HUMANS with an extremely limited realm of experience and reality.
Not sure I would pass it. My job allows me to see handwriting samples from hundreds of different people, including myself, and it's not uncommon to find someone else who's handwriting is so similar to mine that I thought it was mine until I looked at the name on it.
What makes anyone think that we will be able to recognize evidence of other life as evidence of other life? What makes anyone think that other life will be carbon based? What makes anyone think that we'll be able to recognize other life as life even if shoved in our collective face?
Who's to say that there isn't life in the corona of the sun and we are simply incapable of detecting it?
Forgot to add, I taught instrument ratings for a few years, and it's not required anywhere to navigate without any instruments. Escape methods are good to know, and all my students learned them, but it's not required knowledge. If you're in the clouds and you lose all navigation capability (handheld is cheating, you didn't say that was available in your first post), then you're dead unless you get really lucky.
If you happen to be somewhere flat, like the midwest, you might be able to make that luck by knowing where better weather lies, and going in that direction, but in the west, with the mountains and extensive cloud cover, that is not likely to be an option, though it should be checked out before flight.
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Banner ads are still a thing? I haven't seen one in years. Guess those ad blockers are paying off.
I replaced the battery on every phone I had that allowed me to, because I didn't, and still don't, need to replace the phone every two years. I would replace the battery in my Nexus 6 right now if I could because it's lost a noticeable amount of battery life, and again, I don't need, nor want, a new phone. You letting a phone company sell you a new phone because you fell for their marketing is your problem, not a reason for anybody else to not want to replace their phone's battery.
I can tell you that. There have been a number of times where I've browsed the Netflix catalog for something to watch for quite awhile, and then finally said, "fuck it," and played a video game or read a book instead.
...we launched capsules into space with brute force, and crashed them back into the ocean to get them back. Now... we do the same thing. Fantastic.
Actually, airplane autopilots are capable of navigating an entire route, both vertically and laterally, without input from the pilot (after programming and engaging it of course). The difference is that pilots don't blindly trust it like some of these car morons do.
Snowden is probably an NSA plant meant to distract us anyway. He might not even know he is, they just fed him all the crap that he's "revealing" and it's either fake, or they don't care that we know. Think about it, has Snowden actually told us anything that we didn't already know (or suspected at least)? Who gives a crap if the NSA got hacked, it's what they do, the hack, they get hacked, and the cycle continues.
What makes you think life requires protein? Life we're familiar with requires protein, that does not mean that ALL possible life requires protein.
Because he's actually running an ingenious campaign. Hillary is reactionary and making only safe moves. Trump is out in front taking chances and getting attention. Hillary's tag line even has Trump's name in it! What moron does that? Trump is going to trounce her.
In my experience, unstable programs (apps) are almost always the fault of the program, not the operating system. How the operating system handles such programs can be a factor, but in Android, you just kill the program and it's fine, usually. They should look at who programmed the apps they're using.
Edge is even worse that Internet Exploder, which I didn't think was possible until they did it. I wouldn't use Edge even if it CHARGED my battery.
I'm at 36GB used with 6 days to go in plan cycle. Hotel Wi-Fi sucks, it's not even worth trying to use.
I deleted my Facebook account years ago and I don't miss it at all. It's a great tool for companies to exploit consumers though, that's probably its main purpose these days.
I taught myself C by staring at ROM code. I figured out all the syntax and statements of C that way. Eventually bought a standard library reference too.
How does tracking make the passenger safer? If someone gets picked up by a rapist and gets raped and murdered, THEY'RE STILL RAPED AND DEAD. Tracking didn't do a damn thing, whereas a background check MIGHT have found a history and prevented the perp from getting the job. Besides, the tracking is all through the phones. Just tie up the passenger, turn your phone off, toss theirs in the river, goodbye tracking. I hope the citizenry doesn't buy Uber/Lyft's BS.
I sideload AdAway and see no ads anywhere on my phone. If they do away with that option then I'll push it through and, and if that fails then I'll flash it.
This study has nothing to do with reliability, only brand recognition. Regardless of Harley's reliability, they are a very, very widely recognized brand name.
Anything with 16 or 32 bit images, which I do a lot.
While I believe a lot of the current security is unnecessary or at the least far less useful than everyone thinks
I don't believe current security is less useful than everyone thinks, I KNOW it. If you ever spend some real time working for an airline out on the ramp or in the airplanes, you'll realize that the current security system is a smoke screen. It does absolutely nothing to keep the airplanes and airport safe. It is 100% appearance and 0% performance.Someone could blow up an airplane quite easily, though hijacking one would be extremely difficult since the passengers would probably kill the would-be hijackers first.
Let's look at a few of the points.
There are many more TSA idiocies, unfortunatly many of them I can not post. Suffice to say that they are utterly incompetent and do next to nothing to make our airplanes safer. My solution to speed security screening: abolish it altogether. Where's my prize?
I will be happy to see Vonage go under solely because their commercials make me want to kill myself.
You describe the secondary radar fairly accurately, except that all sites also use a primary radar in conjunction with the secondary. Primary radar is the "active" radar that everyone visions, and is exactly how ATC handles airplanes with no transponder. They will identify a "blip" by having the airplane make a specific turn, or series of turns, and then they can tag the target on the screen to track it.
Additionally, secondary radar is not entirely passive, it transmits an interragation signal, which the transponders respond to. Transponders do not volunteer information, they also do not have any anti-tampering provisions in them. Upon initial contact with ATC, ATC gives the pilot a descrete code to enter into the transponder, allowing the ATC system to tag it. If the incorrect code is entered, or the correct code is changed, the ATC computer tags it as an unknown flight, not some random other flight. The pilot would have to randomly fall upon some other descrete code that was in use by another aircraft to be tagged as a known flight. In that case, some confusion would result, but it would hardley be havoc. In any case, an airplane can still be tracked even with the wrong transponder code, or a malfunctioning transponder.
1. Why would it have to be humanoid to have hands? Why would it need hands anyway? Tentacles would work just fine. What about telekenisis? "the force"? Something so alien that you couldn't even begin to describe or comprehend it? 2. Any more than 2 and they're not "humanoid". Legs are the best option according to our limited brain power and experience. What about something so alien that you coouldn't even begin to describe or comprehend it? 3. Why would it need to breath at all? Why would it need fire or electricity? Why would an under water creature have fins and not hands? Why not both, or neither? Anything that advanced could take a near infinate number of forms. It would probably be so alien to us that we wouldn't even recognize it as life. Nothing says it has to breath, be carbon based, eat food or do anything at all similar to how we function. All of those are assumptions made by HUMANS with an extremely limited realm of experience and reality.
Not sure I would pass it. My job allows me to see handwriting samples from hundreds of different people, including myself, and it's not uncommon to find someone else who's handwriting is so similar to mine that I thought it was mine until I looked at the name on it.
What makes anyone think that we will be able to recognize evidence of other life as evidence of other life? What makes anyone think that other life will be carbon based? What makes anyone think that we'll be able to recognize other life as life even if shoved in our collective face?
Who's to say that there isn't life in the corona of the sun and we are simply incapable of detecting it?
Forgot to add, I taught instrument ratings for a few years, and it's not required anywhere to navigate without any instruments. Escape methods are good to know, and all my students learned them, but it's not required knowledge. If you're in the clouds and you lose all navigation capability (handheld is cheating, you didn't say that was available in your first post), then you're dead unless you get really lucky.
If you happen to be somewhere flat, like the midwest, you might be able to make that luck by knowing where better weather lies, and going in that direction, but in the west, with the mountains and extensive cloud cover, that is not likely to be an option, though it should be checked out before flight.