Why not optimize it further so you drive freight trains uphill when the electricity is cheap and then downhill when it's expensive and feed back the braking energy to the grid?
The downside is that it would require a lot of tracks to be electrified, but that can be seen as an investment. You will also need some large holding areas at the top and bottom.
I agree here - it's possible to exploit Linux as well, it would be necessary to use an operating system that's stripped down to the bare essentials of what's needed in an ATM to get rid of possible exploits.
The early ATMs were harder to hack from this perspective since they were running their own software. They probably had some other security issues instead, so everything wasn't better.
The ones to blame are the banks trying to get a cheap solution.
It's not too hard to code for Windows, but it's also the most targeted OS when it comes to malware. And it's not easy to figure out all possible attacks since Windows is very bloated - even the lighter versions usually have a lot of unnecessary stuff floating around.
As someone who did develop an app for 6.1 I would say that it did suck big time because a lot of the functions in the api weren't implemented. So the app compiled but many things didn't work. Light is on but nobody home.
Even the network side is challenged. Many telcos are today abandoning analog lines and go VoIP.
And there are challengers out there to the classic telcos that runs Asterisk and similar cheaper solutions. Even Skype is a considerable factor.
Next evolution would be the mobile networks where challengers will appear. The telecom industry is changing fast now. In two decades the classic phones may be extinct.
It may mean that they have tricked users to do it, like clicking "later" means in this case to not ask again but wait until you leave the computer alone and then push in the upgrade.
You don't control the sun and wind, you just deal with it when it's available. But it's rarely available simultaneously in all locations so the current flows forth and back.
Hydroelectric power is useful as a counter-balance to the variations in wind and solar.
Not sure where you got the "Classic sovietstyle central planning at work" from.
In Europe the electrical grid is connected between the countries. It's also on a day to day basis so one day it flows in one direction and another day in the other.
Only thing you can be sure of is that in Denmark the wind almost always blows, and if it doesn't then it's probably sunny.
Reddit, 4chan and similar are user-driven content sites that are and shall be easy to access. From time to time you will see things going wild on those sites and it's nothing to worry about. Better there than anywhere else.
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Finland has two major seasons, six months of skiing and six months of mosquitoes.
Why not optimize it further so you drive freight trains uphill when the electricity is cheap and then downhill when it's expensive and feed back the braking energy to the grid?
The downside is that it would require a lot of tracks to be electrified, but that can be seen as an investment. You will also need some large holding areas at the top and bottom.
Some sports events seems to attract mostly men.
Or they got an "offer you can't refuse".
Nah - I'd go for a solution built on an embedded kernel on a processor that isn't that common, like the Zilog Z8 family. (Not compatible with Z80)
Or use an FPGA solution.
If done right it's a lot harder to plant malicious functionality into the ATMs.
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I agree here - it's possible to exploit Linux as well, it would be necessary to use an operating system that's stripped down to the bare essentials of what's needed in an ATM to get rid of possible exploits.
The early ATMs were harder to hack from this perspective since they were running their own software. They probably had some other security issues instead, so everything wasn't better.
The ones to blame are the banks trying to get a cheap solution.
It's not too hard to code for Windows, but it's also the most targeted OS when it comes to malware. And it's not easy to figure out all possible attacks since Windows is very bloated - even the lighter versions usually have a lot of unnecessary stuff floating around.
I use LinkedIn as a address book more than anything else.
So it may be annoying if all the mail addresses of my contacts went widespread.
Skype started to get bad and bloated before Microsoft got their hands on it.
As someone who did develop an app for 6.1 I would say that it did suck big time because a lot of the functions in the api weren't implemented. So the app compiled but many things didn't work. Light is on but nobody home.
Even the network side is challenged. Many telcos are today abandoning analog lines and go VoIP.
And there are challengers out there to the classic telcos that runs Asterisk and similar cheaper solutions. Even Skype is a considerable factor.
Next evolution would be the mobile networks where challengers will appear. The telecom industry is changing fast now. In two decades the classic phones may be extinct.
Nokia is already dead, it's just a logo that gets passed around to make zombies.
I agree - targeting Bill Gates today is pretty useless. Larry Ellison on the other hand might cause a bigger splash.
Targeting the Windows validation server infrastructure would however cause a bigger impact if all backup keys were destroyed.
No, it's not funny.
It may mean that they have tricked users to do it, like clicking "later" means in this case to not ask again but wait until you leave the computer alone and then push in the upgrade.
Not different from what malware does.
Create a file in the root named "$WINDOWS.~BT".
That would cause some headache for the installer since it can't create a directory with that name to download Win7 into.
Of course - Microsoft may make a workaround for that too sooner or later.
Not sure where you live, but it was a long time ago Win 10 was on the optional list - if it ever was.
The catch is that you don't have to pay for it but you will be in the local newspaper in ads for meds against genital herpes.
You would be at least a bit more trusted if you didn't post as "Anonymous Coward".
And the number of reported cases of "auto-install" is too high to dismiss.
Swedish republicans are an anti-monarchy movement.
I'd prefer a world with neither.
There are enough people with impairment anyway; disease, mental problems, age related deficiencies, adrenaline junkies...
The simple solution - don't use pot.
You don't control the sun and wind, you just deal with it when it's available. But it's rarely available simultaneously in all locations so the current flows forth and back.
Hydroelectric power is useful as a counter-balance to the variations in wind and solar.
Not sure where you got the "Classic sovietstyle central planning at work" from.
In Europe the electrical grid is connected between the countries. It's also on a day to day basis so one day it flows in one direction and another day in the other.
Only thing you can be sure of is that in Denmark the wind almost always blows, and if it doesn't then it's probably sunny.
And who cares?
Reddit, 4chan and similar are user-driven content sites that are and shall be easy to access. From time to time you will see things going wild on those sites and it's nothing to worry about. Better there than anywhere else.