In the 80s and 90s, GM sold the tilt steering wheel as an option. The vehicles that didn't have the option had all of the components for it except the handle. A wise "hacker" could install the handle himself instead of buying the option.
The economics are simple. The components are cheaper than the cost of building two different modules. You have to re-tool the factory, keep track of which vehicles have it, deliver the correct one to the dealer, and maintain two different components for the life of the vehicle (i.e. stock replacement parts for both, separate instructions in the service manuals for each, higher learning curve for the mechanic, etc.). And it should be obvious that you're charged what you'll pay, not what it costs.
These warnings can be very annoying. On my Sony Ericsson, every time I hit SPEAKERPHONE, I must confirm that I am aware that this may damage my hearing. AFAIK, there is no way to permanently shut this reminder off, presumably because someone else could pick up my phone and not receive the warning.
Why anybody would swerve and risk their own life and the lives of others to avoid hitting a rabbit, squirrel, cat, et al is beyond rational comprehension.
Agreed. I'm not swerving to avoid the little animals. Put my 10,000lb trailer on the back and I'll plow into a deer and trash my truck before I try swerving.
>Using SSL or SSH to encrypt the communications is trivial.
trivial? Only if it's supported! Try connecting to any major IRC network with SSL or SSH. Sure, the networks *could* make it trivial to do...but they certainly haven't yet. And until then, these spy-bots could be very effective.
Have you seen under the hood (or trunk) of one of these electric cars? Half of the volume (or more), probably weight too, is batteries. Getting these in and out are going to be a real bitch when you consider how good the automotive companies are at packaging everything in there. I don't see this as a viable option anytime soon.
>So..just take the blank application, and say "I'll fill it out later".
I find it much more exciting when you begin ripping up the application in their face. In my case, I believe it was Kroger, the new cards (big & small) were actually attached to the application. I tossed everything in the trash can in plain view of the cashier and she was PISSED to say the least.
How do the managers convince these people to care so much anyway? They must be making all of about $8/hr...
>But the existence of a safe nuclear reactor doesn't mean that any particular power plant is safe.
I can assure you that burning millions of tons of coal isn't safe.
>When they're done they leave radioactive bits lying around; even self-contained they're potentially dangerous for thousands of years.
When we burn coal there is no doubt that the pollution IS dangerous for thousands of years. There's no "potentially" about it.
We need to stop looking at how safe/unsafe a new concept like this is; instead we should be looking at whether it is safer or less safe than our current methods. Just because people have been burning coal long before we were born doesn't make it okay.
I've already seen multiply DMCA notices from BayTSP on behalf of Paramount for people using both Gnutella and BitTorrent. Someone is finally backing up their threats?
>I'm actually starting to get a bit miffed about the desire to know everything about how defensive systems work.
What makes you think they're telling us about technologies that aren't already outdated? For all we know the government has had this for 20 years and now they're telling us it's new since they have something else to replace it.
Maybe I've seen too many movies, but if you think the government is telling us everything that they are doing, you aren't very bright.
>Doubleclick was the very first host I mapped to 127.0.0.1
What about those damned websites that won't let you "Continue" until all the ads on the page have loaded (e.g. javascript)? I used the hosts file for a while; when this became an issue I switched to Firefox's Adblock Extension.
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Nice to associate the term "hacker" with "honest" once in a while
typo this IS old
In the 80s and 90s, GM sold the tilt steering wheel as an option. The vehicles that didn't have the option had all of the components for it except the handle. A wise "hacker" could install the handle himself instead of buying the option. The economics are simple. The components are cheaper than the cost of building two different modules. You have to re-tool the factory, keep track of which vehicles have it, deliver the correct one to the dealer, and maintain two different components for the life of the vehicle (i.e. stock replacement parts for both, separate instructions in the service manuals for each, higher learning curve for the mechanic, etc.). And it should be obvious that you're charged what you'll pay, not what it costs.
That's pretty obvious. The question is which has MORE influence. RECENT MEDIA COVERAGE or RECENT WEATHER? http://www.davidryfe.com/here/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/mccombsch03setting.pdf
These warnings can be very annoying. On my Sony Ericsson, every time I hit SPEAKERPHONE, I must confirm that I am aware that this may damage my hearing. AFAIK, there is no way to permanently shut this reminder off, presumably because someone else could pick up my phone and not receive the warning.
This is slowly getting out of control...
Agreed. I'm not swerving to avoid the little animals. Put my 10,000lb trailer on the back and I'll plow into a deer and trash my truck before I try swerving.
http://my.core.com/~lbutler/cellular.html
You'd have trouble convincing more than about 2% of users to refuse.
>Publishers won't get any data from it
Sure they will. You will be the one getting no data because you're holding out when no one else cares.
It's a wonderful idea, but it simply won't happen without government intervention...and who wants that?
Old news, I got my M-Card from the University of Michigan years ago...
The question is, when the 2nd dumbest person there quit after 30 seconds...why the hell didn't you quit after 31 seconds?
trivial? Only if it's supported! Try connecting to any major IRC network with SSL or SSH. Sure, the networks *could* make it trivial to do...but they certainly haven't yet. And until then, these spy-bots could be very effective.
Have you seen under the hood (or trunk) of one of these electric cars? Half of the volume (or more), probably weight too, is batteries. Getting these in and out are going to be a real bitch when you consider how good the automotive companies are at packaging everything in there. I don't see this as a viable option anytime soon.
I find it much more exciting when you begin ripping up the application in their face. In my case, I believe it was Kroger, the new cards (big & small) were actually attached to the application. I tossed everything in the trash can in plain view of the cashier and she was PISSED to say the least.
How do the managers convince these people to care so much anyway? They must be making all of about $8/hr...
Here are two more older articles with more pictures. These don't mention shotguns...
I can assure you that burning millions of tons of coal isn't safe.
>When they're done they leave radioactive bits lying around; even self-contained they're potentially dangerous for thousands of years.
When we burn coal there is no doubt that the pollution IS dangerous for thousands of years. There's no "potentially" about it.
We need to stop looking at how safe/unsafe a new concept like this is; instead we should be looking at whether it is safer or less safe than our current methods. Just because people have been burning coal long before we were born doesn't make it okay.
Anything confidential needs to be encrypted with VPN, SSL, or something similar. Period.
Sure you can turn WEP or WAP on...but don't stake all your data on it. Use what's tested and trusted by the rest.
I've already seen multiply DMCA notices from BayTSP on behalf of Paramount for people using both Gnutella and BitTorrent. Someone is finally backing up their threats?
Agreed, it's pretty impressive. Anyone have a video link?
And what makes you think that this is impossible? You can convince the public of anything if you have enough time.
Michigan Indymedia does here (all fields but phone number & carrier are optional)
From what I've seen, they're already do as much as they possibly can.
What makes you think they're telling us about technologies that aren't already outdated? For all we know the government has had this for 20 years and now they're telling us it's new since they have something else to replace it.
Maybe I've seen too many movies, but if you think the government is telling us everything that they are doing, you aren't very bright.
Offtopic, but why is an "order of magnitude" a factor of 10? Is it just because we're working in base 10? I don't get it...
Ummm, because the Tripod link is still working just fine?
What about those damned websites that won't let you "Continue" until all the ads on the page have loaded (e.g. javascript)? I used the hosts file for a while; when this became an issue I switched to Firefox's Adblock Extension.