Guess what happens when the power goes out? Their pumps stop working, plus the electronic metering systems don't work. So, even for the few mom-and-pop places around with above ground tanks, while you could technically get fuel out of them, they wouldn't be able to meter it.
(Plus, that's road fuel -- in NC, that's a significant cost per gallon. Highway usage taxes are part of it. Fuel for generators and farm use don't pay road tax. There are dyes indicating taxes/untaxed; you better not get caught with the wrong fuel in your VW TDI.)
A) There's really not a lot of PU in a pacemaker. Granted, that stuff is *very* toxic. B) Pacemaker power cells are designed to withstand cremation. (think "house fire"; there's plenty of ways people get incinerated.) However, it is best to remove medical devices prior to cremation.
Yep... forced to use "modern" battery eating technology. I still carry around my 2G/EDGE phone because it lasts weeks on a charge. (2wks with BT enabled, 4wks without) It's replacement (ATT/Sony W518) won't last a week. The iPhone (3GS?) I was sent when the old 2G phone went nuts, wouldn't last 3 *DAYS* without being charged; and if I actually used it for apps, then it wouldn't last a day.
(Yes, the 2G phone will eat it's battery if you take it to fringe area, like, Carolina Motorsports Park.:-))
Several years after s/he stopped juicing, you mean. Simple hormones can present the illusion of a gender change, but once you stop the "suppliments", you'll go back to the way you were born. (mostly.)
This is what we used to call a "low level format". It's next to impossible to do outside the factory these days. For one, because the firmware is stored on the platter(s) -- flash is expensive, so they save $0.03 by not putting any on the board. (the board has the tiniest ROM possible to hold a boot loader.) The FORMAT UNIT command just zero's the drive; it does not actually reformat the surface, which rewrites tracking information, parameter block(s), and padding not normally user accessable. ('tho there are vendor specific commands to get at that. similar to a floppy disk "full track read".)
[I've had a few Maxtor drives (bulk) that weren't programmed. The boot rom has just enough brain to show up on the bus. Maxtor will not give you the necessary tool to fix this -- i.e. there is no firmware upgrade tool available outside the factory. Other manufacturers are not as lame.]
The quality of the ad has little to do with it. You won't pay attention to the same ad over and over. Even the Mayhem and Most Interest Man In The World ads get skipped after I've seen them a few times.
Random google ads across various internet sites... very very few. Unfortunately I tend to not notice any ads until I've clicked a link -- thus during the dead period waiting for a new page to load -- at which point it's too late. (back will load a new ad) Google ads on search pages, however, are a different story; those tend to be very helpful.
Actually, many ad systems already do that. The word you're looking for is "impressions". Usually, it's pennies per thousand. The real problem with internet ads is nobody pays them any attention; we've become blind/oblivious to them. We don't pay much attention to ads in print media either, but it's harder for advertisers to measure that. How much attention do you give interstate billboards? Why? If you're like me, they are either completely ignored, or read only because I'm bored. Flashy billboards only work a few times before they're no longer "flashy" -- in internet terms, that's the source of the escalation to flash ads that scream at you.
I'm not aware of our current ad rates since firing the network that was ~60% of our revenue. (I wasn't the one who had to chase them down every month to get our check, so I'm not entitled to complain.:-))
Simple answer... don't lose your g** d*** $300 key.
That $300 is supposed to be a deterrent to losing the key. It also means thieves are much less likely to go that route to boost a car -- 'tho it's a popular hollywood plot device. Also, the key adaption process is complex -- and on modern makes requires access to a database at the manufacturer.
If any idiot with a file can make a key for your car, then any idiot can drive away in your car. (I've seen a repo man cut a key for a truck in under 30s.) These electronic anti-theft devices are *supposed* to make it harder to walk off with someone's car. BMW has obviously failed in every way here.
That was a relay attack. They had someone get close enough to the real key to relay signals from the car to the key. That's not really a "hack"; all they did was virtually bring the key closer to the car.
And it won't work on my 2010 Lexus. The car knows within a few feet where the key is. (in fact, it knows if the key is inside or outside the car, and if the person holding the key is the one touch the car -- you can stand next to me and not unlock the car.)
you'd always have to go to the dealer to add a key
On modern immobilizer systems you have to anyway as the manufacturer is the only one with the security code(s) and the necessary proprietary software. My VW bug is old enough to have that code on the vin key tag.
They walk up, smash the window, then reach down to the OBD keeping out of sight of the alarm sensors, program their own key, unlock the car (disarms the alarm -- notice the lights flash), get in, push it far enough away noone will hear it start up.
The parts are worth many times it's showroom sticker price. The engine and transmission are worth a few thousand. (and it doesn't take long at all to drop them. Ask my race team mates how fast they've swapped an engine at the track.)
Because you're turning the lock exactly as if the proper key were used. There's no immobilizer loop in the door locks to confirm a proper key is being used.
Yes, this is called an immobilizer. It is COMPLETELY USELESS if you can get to the OBD port to program a new key. THIS is the problem with the idiot BMW... it's trivial to program a new key. Plus the other levels of stupid before you even get there... breaking a window doesn't set off the alarm!!!
(BTW, US OBD-II standards require the port be unpowered until the ignition is turned on.)
"User replaceable" is open to debate -- depends on the user, really. The consumer isn't supposed to (or expected to) disassemble their TV. HOWEVER, there are numerous replacable parts inside them. (input processors (aka tuners), speakers, speaker drivers, back lights, display drivers, power supplies,...)
Laptops have never been "servicing friendly". They're cramming a whole lot of stuff in a very tiny space. It's more than a pain in the *** to even disassemble one; actually repairing the tiny, and often flimzy, boards is Real Work(tm).
Well, go give the Romans billet aluminium and CNC machines and see where they go with it. The Romans had plenty of slave labor; they didn't need steam engines.
To be fair, (w.r.t. Babylon 5) the AMIGA didn't make the show... the Video Toaster CARD in the Amiga did 99% of the work. (and the video toaster was *not* cheap) The Amiga hardware wasn't fast enough to do video production -- neither was the Mac Plus, for that matter. (most 486's of the era couldn't either.)
I'm advocating *necessary* randomness. When the prefix-length isn't 64 (eg. 96), there isn't room to put the MAC in there. If the length is 64, then yes, do the normal "slacker" thing. (think of it as something beyond SLAAC. SLAAC is designed for one very specific situation. if you deviate in any way, your only option is dhcp -- or static assign every address.)
It's something every remotely modern IPv6 stack already supports... Privacy Extensions. Even the Windows XP IPv6 statck supports PE. The host is already making up an address and ensuring no collisions. Yes, it's more computation than prefix + MAC, but it also don't take 250KB of code to do it.
There have been discussions on NANOG (and a few other lists / forums) where people have started down the "64bit network" path, where they incorrectly optimize their route tables and routing logic (some of it in hardware) to only look at 64 bits instead of the entire 128. This is absolutely WRONG. And it's entirely rooted in this BS from SLAAC... "well 64 bit prefix is as small as you'll ever see." That is so wrong, words cannot express how flaming wrong it is. The longest prefix one can have in a routing table is 128 bits -- it is perfectly legal to have host specific routes.
The reason for the hard limit was to make address selection "trivially simple" to facilitate IPv6 stacks on memory constrained devices. That originated nearly 20 years ago. (and the limit was 80 then... using the 48bit ethernet mac. that has since been moved to 64 to support EUI-64 (bluetooth, firewire, etc.)) It was a lame excuse then, it's an even worse excuse today. The code size and complexity to support alternate address selection and duplicate address detection do not create a burden for any modern "memory constrained device" (none that will ever see IPv6 support any way.) We're talking about things like print servers, access points, power switches, weather monitors, etc., etc. I'm not talking about your PC or cellphone or game console -- all things that have plenty of storage, RAM, and cpu. The hard coded prefix-length was a compromise that was never necessary. (esp. with all the other "bloat" required to meet all the specs.)
There is no reason for a hard limit. A classless addressing system having a defacto classful network/host boundary is an oxymoron. And it promotes completely incorrect assumptions about people's networks. (this has *already* come up several times.)
It's stupid and unnecessary. Almost everything supports privacy extentions which means it has duplicate address detection capabilities already -- and honestly, DAD is trivial, it won't add bloat or significant complexity to an IPv6 device. Picking an address and seeing if it's in use is not that difficult. (like, say, requiring a complete ipsec engine. they have finally dropped that -- it's a "SHOULD" not a "MUST" now.)
Comcast (and other ISPs) use the/128 as the CPE router, and then route a/64 or/56 towards it. I'm not sure what you have to do to get Comcast to assign a/56 to you, but that's what they've said they were going to do. (it might also be a/56 internal allocation, but they're only actively using a/64 at the CPE.) This is all still "highly experimental."
(The agreed upon path is/56 per residential connection and/48 per business, but I'm not surprised to see/64's everywhere.)
They'll still track you... cookies, breadcrumbs, etc. Oh yeah, and your IPv6/64 network prefix. sure, they won't be able to follow the exact machine, but that's no different than today's NAT'd IPv4 networks.
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Guess what happens when the power goes out? Their pumps stop working, plus the electronic metering systems don't work. So, even for the few mom-and-pop places around with above ground tanks, while you could technically get fuel out of them, they wouldn't be able to meter it.
(Plus, that's road fuel -- in NC, that's a significant cost per gallon. Highway usage taxes are part of it. Fuel for generators and farm use don't pay road tax. There are dyes indicating taxes/untaxed; you better not get caught with the wrong fuel in your VW TDI.)
A) There's really not a lot of PU in a pacemaker. Granted, that stuff is *very* toxic.
B) Pacemaker power cells are designed to withstand cremation. (think "house fire"; there's plenty of ways people get incinerated.) However, it is best to remove medical devices prior to cremation.
I guess that makes me decadent since I have VT420s. (and no MMJ crimps :-()
Yep... forced to use "modern" battery eating technology. I still carry around my 2G/EDGE phone because it lasts weeks on a charge. (2wks with BT enabled, 4wks without) It's replacement (ATT/Sony W518) won't last a week. The iPhone (3GS?) I was sent when the old 2G phone went nuts, wouldn't last 3 *DAYS* without being charged; and if I actually used it for apps, then it wouldn't last a day.
(Yes, the 2G phone will eat it's battery if you take it to fringe area, like, Carolina Motorsports Park. :-))
Several years after s/he stopped juicing, you mean. Simple hormones can present the illusion of a gender change, but once you stop the "suppliments", you'll go back to the way you were born. (mostly.)
This is what we used to call a "low level format". It's next to impossible to do outside the factory these days. For one, because the firmware is stored on the platter(s) -- flash is expensive, so they save $0.03 by not putting any on the board. (the board has the tiniest ROM possible to hold a boot loader.) The FORMAT UNIT command just zero's the drive; it does not actually reformat the surface, which rewrites tracking information, parameter block(s), and padding not normally user accessable. ('tho there are vendor specific commands to get at that. similar to a floppy disk "full track read".)
[I've had a few Maxtor drives (bulk) that weren't programmed. The boot rom has just enough brain to show up on the bus. Maxtor will not give you the necessary tool to fix this -- i.e. there is no firmware upgrade tool available outside the factory. Other manufacturers are not as lame.]
The quality of the ad has little to do with it. You won't pay attention to the same ad over and over. Even the Mayhem and Most Interest Man In The World ads get skipped after I've seen them a few times.
Random google ads across various internet sites... very very few. Unfortunately I tend to not notice any ads until I've clicked a link -- thus during the dead period waiting for a new page to load -- at which point it's too late. (back will load a new ad) Google ads on search pages, however, are a different story; those tend to be very helpful.
Actually, many ad systems already do that. The word you're looking for is "impressions". Usually, it's pennies per thousand. The real problem with internet ads is nobody pays them any attention; we've become blind/oblivious to them. We don't pay much attention to ads in print media either, but it's harder for advertisers to measure that. How much attention do you give interstate billboards? Why? If you're like me, they are either completely ignored, or read only because I'm bored. Flashy billboards only work a few times before they're no longer "flashy" -- in internet terms, that's the source of the escalation to flash ads that scream at you.
I'm not aware of our current ad rates since firing the network that was ~60% of our revenue. (I wasn't the one who had to chase them down every month to get our check, so I'm not entitled to complain. :-))
Simple answer... don't lose your g** d*** $300 key.
That $300 is supposed to be a deterrent to losing the key. It also means thieves are much less likely to go that route to boost a car -- 'tho it's a popular hollywood plot device. Also, the key adaption process is complex -- and on modern makes requires access to a database at the manufacturer.
If any idiot with a file can make a key for your car, then any idiot can drive away in your car. (I've seen a repo man cut a key for a truck in under 30s.) These electronic anti-theft devices are *supposed* to make it harder to walk off with someone's car. BMW has obviously failed in every way here.
That was a relay attack. They had someone get close enough to the real key to relay signals from the car to the key. That's not really a "hack"; all they did was virtually bring the key closer to the car.
And it won't work on my 2010 Lexus. The car knows within a few feet where the key is. (in fact, it knows if the key is inside or outside the car, and if the person holding the key is the one touch the car -- you can stand next to me and not unlock the car.)
you'd always have to go to the dealer to add a key
On modern immobilizer systems you have to anyway as the manufacturer is the only one with the security code(s) and the necessary proprietary software. My VW bug is old enough to have that code on the vin key tag.
They walk up, smash the window, then reach down to the OBD keeping out of sight of the alarm sensors, program their own key, unlock the car (disarms the alarm -- notice the lights flash), get in, push it far enough away noone will hear it start up.
The parts are worth many times it's showroom sticker price. The engine and transmission are worth a few thousand. (and it doesn't take long at all to drop them. Ask my race team mates how fast they've swapped an engine at the track.)
Because you're turning the lock exactly as if the proper key were used. There's no immobilizer loop in the door locks to confirm a proper key is being used.
Yes, this is called an immobilizer. It is COMPLETELY USELESS if you can get to the OBD port to program a new key. THIS is the problem with the idiot BMW... it's trivial to program a new key. Plus the other levels of stupid before you even get there... breaking a window doesn't set off the alarm!!!
(BTW, US OBD-II standards require the port be unpowered until the ignition is turned on.)
"User replaceable" is open to debate -- depends on the user, really. The consumer isn't supposed to (or expected to) disassemble their TV. HOWEVER, there are numerous replacable parts inside them. (input processors (aka tuners), speakers, speaker drivers, back lights, display drivers, power supplies, ...)
Laptops have never been "servicing friendly". They're cramming a whole lot of stuff in a very tiny space. It's more than a pain in the *** to even disassemble one; actually repairing the tiny, and often flimzy, boards is Real Work(tm).
Well, go give the Romans billet aluminium and CNC machines and see where they go with it. The Romans had plenty of slave labor; they didn't need steam engines.
To be fair, (w.r.t. Babylon 5) the AMIGA didn't make the show... the Video Toaster CARD in the Amiga did 99% of the work. (and the video toaster was *not* cheap) The Amiga hardware wasn't fast enough to do video production -- neither was the Mac Plus, for that matter. (most 486's of the era couldn't either.)
I'm advocating *necessary* randomness. When the prefix-length isn't 64 (eg. 96), there isn't room to put the MAC in there. If the length is 64, then yes, do the normal "slacker" thing. (think of it as something beyond SLAAC. SLAAC is designed for one very specific situation. if you deviate in any way, your only option is dhcp -- or static assign every address.)
It's something every remotely modern IPv6 stack already supports... Privacy Extensions. Even the Windows XP IPv6 statck supports PE. The host is already making up an address and ensuring no collisions. Yes, it's more computation than prefix + MAC, but it also don't take 250KB of code to do it.
There have been discussions on NANOG (and a few other lists / forums) where people have started down the "64bit network" path, where they incorrectly optimize their route tables and routing logic (some of it in hardware) to only look at 64 bits instead of the entire 128. This is absolutely WRONG. And it's entirely rooted in this BS from SLAAC... "well 64 bit prefix is as small as you'll ever see." That is so wrong, words cannot express how flaming wrong it is. The longest prefix one can have in a routing table is 128 bits -- it is perfectly legal to have host specific routes.
The reason for the hard limit was to make address selection "trivially simple" to facilitate IPv6 stacks on memory constrained devices. That originated nearly 20 years ago. (and the limit was 80 then... using the 48bit ethernet mac. that has since been moved to 64 to support EUI-64 (bluetooth, firewire, etc.)) It was a lame excuse then, it's an even worse excuse today. The code size and complexity to support alternate address selection and duplicate address detection do not create a burden for any modern "memory constrained device" (none that will ever see IPv6 support any way.) We're talking about things like print servers, access points, power switches, weather monitors, etc., etc. I'm not talking about your PC or cellphone or game console -- all things that have plenty of storage, RAM, and cpu. The hard coded prefix-length was a compromise that was never necessary. (esp. with all the other "bloat" required to meet all the specs.)
There is no reason for a hard limit. A classless addressing system having a defacto classful network/host boundary is an oxymoron. And it promotes completely incorrect assumptions about people's networks. (this has *already* come up several times.)
It's stupid and unnecessary. Almost everything supports privacy extentions which means it has duplicate address detection capabilities already -- and honestly, DAD is trivial, it won't add bloat or significant complexity to an IPv6 device. Picking an address and seeing if it's in use is not that difficult. (like, say, requiring a complete ipsec engine. they have finally dropped that -- it's a "SHOULD" not a "MUST" now.)
Comcast (and other ISPs) use the /128 as the CPE router, and then route a /64 or /56 towards it. I'm not sure what you have to do to get Comcast to assign a /56 to you, but that's what they've said they were going to do. (it might also be a /56 internal allocation, but they're only actively using a /64 at the CPE.) This is all still "highly experimental."
(The agreed upon path is /56 per residential connection and /48 per business, but I'm not surprised to see /64's everywhere.)
Yes. And I don't care. (the "prefix-length === 64" requirement should've been dropped a decade ago.)
They'll still track you... cookies, breadcrumbs, etc. Oh yeah, and your IPv6 /64 network prefix. sure, they won't be able to follow the exact machine, but that's no different than today's NAT'd IPv4 networks.