Really. What makes them "secure"? They cut the release arm off the LC connector? If you aren't using hard crypto -- esp. those little boxes the military love to use that blow their brains out if you look at them wrong -- then it isn't secure. (And if you give the NSA long enough, they're likely to break it anyway.)
VW VR6 (don't remember year)... mechanical throttle with all the rest of the electronic crap. The ECU still controls the fuel pump, injectors, and ignition coils. You'll go as fast as the ECU allows.
A PE would not put his (or her) seal on something they do not approve of. If the manager is the ass pushing an unsafe design, then he can put his seal (and professional career) on the line. Note: a PE can be held criminally liable for his errors.
On an old, key'd, car, the ignition switch ("key") disconnects power to the ignition system. All power goes away immediately and the car dies shortly after that. In a diesel, that switch kills the fuel pump (which is how all mechanical diesels are shutoff.)
In most hybrids, the only way to kill the system with a zombie ECU is to pull the main battery link. In the trunk. While standing on the brake.
Pretty much. As I'm told, "drivers ed" isn't even taught in high school anymore. And it was never necessary to get a permit -- pass the written test and off you go. And the test (written and driving) to get your license is pretty simple too; not so trivial to nervous teen, but on the whole, what they test is nothing. (the CDL test... now that's a driving test.)
In this case, she was justified as in that era people didn't drive, esp. in high traffic at speed. This is like putting a 15yo in dense interstate traffic. (if you've ever taught anyone to drive, you would shudder at the thought)
How do you turn off an electronic (keyless) ignition when the compter isn't listening to you? "The button, it does nothing!" Scream to someone passing by to climb in the trunk and pull the battery disconnect?!?
No, there's *one* set of brakes. You have two ways of using them.
The park brake activates the rear brakes. In a FWD car, that will, in almost all cases, not do a damned thing. The front will simple drag the rear end along until the tires blow. To stop the car, the traction wheels have to stop. And that means the hydraulic system has to stop and hold the wheels... while you figure out how to kill the engine in a full panic. At speed, that's questionable with OE brake systems. (they're designed to last a long time, not withstand tremendous heat.)
If your automatic has a direct link... you'd be surprised how many are electronic these days. In the case of the Prius (and it's kind), the ignition is electronic, the accelerator is electronic, the gear shifter is electronic, the power steering (the power part -- you can fight it, but I doubt you'll win) is electronic, the power brakes are electronic (w/ manual "override" if you push them far enough) So, how exactly do you stop a car like that? It can start and stop itself, select a gear, and go. It's not like a race car with a kill switch (that disconnects ALL electrical power.) There's no key to turn it off. And the traction battery disconnect is in the trunk; rather hard to stand on the brakes *and* reach that plug.
The words you're looking for are "very little choice" and "no choice". There are lots of places around the country that have no choice -- one ISP, take it or leave it. Most of the rest of the country has little choice... broadband from a single telco (DSL), or broadband from a single cableco (DOCSIS). There are very few independent DSL providers around -- covad, sonic, xmission -- but their service areas are small. (even the once national covad has shrunk almost into oblivion) It is exceedingly rare to find areas where there are multiple telcos or cablecos; because telcos were a protected monopoly for decades, and cable was protected by franchise contracts for just as long.
Other niche options: Broadband over power lines which is about as common these days as a Yeti in Central Park, and is another pseudo-monopoly. WISPs (wireless ISPs, often using 802.11 WIFI) are rare, tend to be slow and expensive, and are prone to outages. Clearwire -- need I say anything? Cellular data... very expensive, very small caps (or dirt slow when you exceed them) to the point it's not a viable "broadband" option. Satellite? That's the absolute last option, and I'd be hard pressed to choose it over dialup. If you've won the lottery, you have a municipal fiber/wifi network or Google Fiber; the former having been banned and/or regulated out of existence in MANY states. (with laws written by, guess who, the local cable and telco lobbies)
Not really... people pay what they do because they have little choice. Pay a high rate to one ISP or another (if they have others), or do without. And we all know, people will not do without. Broke and up to their eyeballs in dept, but they still have cable TV, internet, and the latest iPhones.
Good God, no! Don't forget the binary registry files. And the "we don't use shell scripts" lie -- except for all these shell scripts in this lib/svc dir you're not supposed to look at.
I used to be in the same camp. But the ability to "/etc/init.d/foo start" and "/etc/init.d/foo stop" won me over quickly. However, today's SysVinit systems have been poked and twisted into huge, horrible, complex systems. Basically, people making problems to (not) solve.
Today, I look at the "one script to start them all" BSD way as primative. Simple and effective, but very primative.
Bullshit. If you have trouble writing an init script, you clearly don't know how to write a shell script.
Templating aside, all the script has to handle is "start" and "stop" (and "restart" which is stop()&&start() ) All distros have their lame bloat bolted on to the init system -- the header comments to tell what it is, what it requires, etc. so the "makefile" BS can create an order and start things in parallel (the very definition of bloat.) In debian, it's simple to make an init script the tools will accept without bitching.
What's next? The OpenSolaris windows-like registry system (which despite the marketing BS, still uses shell scripts. They aren't in/etc 'tho)
Yeah, I'm scratching my head on that one too. If he's prohibited from possessing firearms, why would he be in charge of "ordinance" (which could be a lot of things in the Coast Guard.)
May be, but "Apollo" is the only obvious, seasoned actor in this thing. And it's obvious the minute he starts talking. Everyone else is trying too hard to be their TOS character, or too rigidly just reading their part.
Jesus, since when does Kirk take a freakin' vote?!?
Actually, you are in for a huge surprise should this ever actually happen. Google doesn't "back up" anything. Your machines "sync" the contents of the Google Drive, which means when it's deleted from Google, your machines will delete it too!
The Cloud not a fucking backup. It's simply putting your data on someone else's computers, where they can do anything they please to/with it. If you want your data secure, YOU have to secure it. If you want your data safe (read: backed up), YOU have to make copies and put them in safe places. (on media that will last as long as you value the data -- that almost always means *NOT* on a hard drive.)
That's deleting them from a pre-filtered folder, not the inbox. I have a few filters like that myself, and there's a checkbox along the lines of "this shit is NEVER spam".
This has long been a problem with Yahoo! (and AOL when they mattered)... people would hit the "spam" button like it's "delete" -- and the buttons were too damned close together. And Yahoo! has never given a single shit about it.
Gmail also has the very nasty habit of classifying anything you delete without opening immediately as spam. As if I cannot determine I don't want to read *a single email* from the subject alone, or that, maybe, I've read of from one of the many other places my gmail goes (and comes from) -- this inspite of the "it's f'ing spam" button; deleting "without" reading does not make something spam, clicking the "it's f'ing spam" button makes it spam.
But it's not about "safety"... it's 99% R-E-V-E-N-U-E. And while the state (NC) gets a small part of that (~6$), the inspection station gets a lot (6-23$) -- for less than 10min "work". (plus whatever excessively overpriced "repairs" they can push on you.)
I know in NC, if it weren't for people failing the inspection, a great many cars would have no functional wipers and "racing slick" bald tires.
They were supposed to, but they've been busy selling off those massive fiber networks for a good long while now. (after first trying to be ISPs, and failing rather comically.)
Chess is a highly complex game giving rise to many "gambits". WoW, on the other hand, is a endless series of boring tasks, with a few grand battles thrown in. That said, i've never heard of a bot being able to complete quests -- which means working in groups, solving puzzles, and battling rooms full of baddies.
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Really. What makes them "secure"? They cut the release arm off the LC connector? If you aren't using hard crypto -- esp. those little boxes the military love to use that blow their brains out if you look at them wrong -- then it isn't secure. (And if you give the NSA long enough, they're likely to break it anyway.)
VW VR6 (don't remember year)... mechanical throttle with all the rest of the electronic crap. The ECU still controls the fuel pump, injectors, and ignition coils. You'll go as fast as the ECU allows.
A PE would not put his (or her) seal on something they do not approve of. If the manager is the ass pushing an unsafe design, then he can put his seal (and professional career) on the line. Note: a PE can be held criminally liable for his errors.
Except there are no "professional (software) engineers" -- there's no PE process for programmers.
On an old, key'd, car, the ignition switch ("key") disconnects power to the ignition system. All power goes away immediately and the car dies shortly after that. In a diesel, that switch kills the fuel pump (which is how all mechanical diesels are shutoff.)
In most hybrids, the only way to kill the system with a zombie ECU is to pull the main battery link. In the trunk. While standing on the brake.
Pretty much. As I'm told, "drivers ed" isn't even taught in high school anymore. And it was never necessary to get a permit -- pass the written test and off you go. And the test (written and driving) to get your license is pretty simple too; not so trivial to nervous teen, but on the whole, what they test is nothing. (the CDL test... now that's a driving test.)
In this case, she was justified as in that era people didn't drive, esp. in high traffic at speed. This is like putting a 15yo in dense interstate traffic. (if you've ever taught anyone to drive, you would shudder at the thought)
How do you turn off an electronic (keyless) ignition when the compter isn't listening to you? "The button, it does nothing!" Scream to someone passing by to climb in the trunk and pull the battery disconnect?!?
No, there's *one* set of brakes. You have two ways of using them.
The park brake activates the rear brakes. In a FWD car, that will, in almost all cases, not do a damned thing. The front will simple drag the rear end along until the tires blow. To stop the car, the traction wheels have to stop. And that means the hydraulic system has to stop and hold the wheels... while you figure out how to kill the engine in a full panic. At speed, that's questionable with OE brake systems. (they're designed to last a long time, not withstand tremendous heat.)
If your automatic has a direct link... you'd be surprised how many are electronic these days. In the case of the Prius (and it's kind), the ignition is electronic, the accelerator is electronic, the gear shifter is electronic, the power steering (the power part -- you can fight it, but I doubt you'll win) is electronic, the power brakes are electronic (w/ manual "override" if you push them far enough) So, how exactly do you stop a car like that? It can start and stop itself, select a gear, and go. It's not like a race car with a kill switch (that disconnects ALL electrical power.) There's no key to turn it off. And the traction battery disconnect is in the trunk; rather hard to stand on the brakes *and* reach that plug.
Find me someone who cannot be bought, and I'll vote for 'em. Good luck a) finding this person, and b) getting the rest of the sheep to vote them in.
The words you're looking for are "very little choice" and "no choice". There are lots of places around the country that have no choice -- one ISP, take it or leave it. Most of the rest of the country has little choice... broadband from a single telco (DSL), or broadband from a single cableco (DOCSIS). There are very few independent DSL providers around -- covad, sonic, xmission -- but their service areas are small. (even the once national covad has shrunk almost into oblivion) It is exceedingly rare to find areas where there are multiple telcos or cablecos; because telcos were a protected monopoly for decades, and cable was protected by franchise contracts for just as long.
Other niche options: Broadband over power lines which is about as common these days as a Yeti in Central Park, and is another pseudo-monopoly. WISPs (wireless ISPs, often using 802.11 WIFI) are rare, tend to be slow and expensive, and are prone to outages. Clearwire -- need I say anything? Cellular data... very expensive, very small caps (or dirt slow when you exceed them) to the point it's not a viable "broadband" option. Satellite? That's the absolute last option, and I'd be hard pressed to choose it over dialup. If you've won the lottery, you have a municipal fiber/wifi network or Google Fiber; the former having been banned and/or regulated out of existence in MANY states. (with laws written by, guess who, the local cable and telco lobbies)
Not really... people pay what they do because they have little choice. Pay a high rate to one ISP or another (if they have others), or do without. And we all know, people will not do without. Broke and up to their eyeballs in dept, but they still have cable TV, internet, and the latest iPhones.
Good God, no! Don't forget the binary registry files. And the "we don't use shell scripts" lie -- except for all these shell scripts in this lib/svc dir you're not supposed to look at.
I used to be in the same camp. But the ability to "/etc/init.d/foo start" and "/etc/init.d/foo stop" won me over quickly. However, today's SysVinit systems have been poked and twisted into huge, horrible, complex systems. Basically, people making problems to (not) solve.
Today, I look at the "one script to start them all" BSD way as primative. Simple and effective, but very primative.
Bullshit. If you have trouble writing an init script, you clearly don't know how to write a shell script.
Templating aside, all the script has to handle is "start" and "stop" (and "restart" which is stop()&&start() ) All distros have their lame bloat bolted on to the init system -- the header comments to tell what it is, what it requires, etc. so the "makefile" BS can create an order and start things in parallel (the very definition of bloat.) In debian, it's simple to make an init script the tools will accept without bitching.
What's next? The OpenSolaris windows-like registry system (which despite the marketing BS, still uses shell scripts. They aren't in /etc 'tho)
Exactly. The equation(s) aren't wrong, there's something out there we've not observed. *rolls eye*
However, it does make for my favorite physics joke: "two plus two equals five, for very large values of two."
Yeah, I'm scratching my head on that one too. If he's prohibited from possessing firearms, why would he be in charge of "ordinance" (which could be a lot of things in the Coast Guard.)
May be, but "Apollo" is the only obvious, seasoned actor in this thing. And it's obvious the minute he starts talking. Everyone else is trying too hard to be their TOS character, or too rigidly just reading their part.
Jesus, since when does Kirk take a freakin' vote?!?
Actually, you are in for a huge surprise should this ever actually happen. Google doesn't "back up" anything. Your machines "sync" the contents of the Google Drive, which means when it's deleted from Google, your machines will delete it too!
The Cloud not a fucking backup. It's simply putting your data on someone else's computers, where they can do anything they please to/with it. If you want your data secure, YOU have to secure it. If you want your data safe (read: backed up), YOU have to make copies and put them in safe places. (on media that will last as long as you value the data -- that almost always means *NOT* on a hard drive.)
That's deleting them from a pre-filtered folder, not the inbox. I have a few filters like that myself, and there's a checkbox along the lines of "this shit is NEVER spam".
This has long been a problem with Yahoo! (and AOL when they mattered)... people would hit the "spam" button like it's "delete" -- and the buttons were too damned close together. And Yahoo! has never given a single shit about it.
Gmail also has the very nasty habit of classifying anything you delete without opening immediately as spam. As if I cannot determine I don't want to read *a single email* from the subject alone, or that, maybe, I've read of from one of the many other places my gmail goes (and comes from) -- this inspite of the "it's f'ing spam" button; deleting "without" reading does not make something spam, clicking the "it's f'ing spam" button makes it spam.
But it's not about "safety"... it's 99% R-E-V-E-N-U-E. And while the state (NC) gets a small part of that (~6$), the inspection station gets a lot (6-23$) -- for less than 10min "work". (plus whatever excessively overpriced "repairs" they can push on you.)
I know in NC, if it weren't for people failing the inspection, a great many cars would have no functional wipers and "racing slick" bald tires.
They were supposed to, but they've been busy selling off those massive fiber networks for a good long while now. (after first trying to be ISPs, and failing rather comically.)
Chess is a highly complex game giving rise to many "gambits". WoW, on the other hand, is a endless series of boring tasks, with a few grand battles thrown in. That said, i've never heard of a bot being able to complete quests -- which means working in groups, solving puzzles, and battling rooms full of baddies.