All of the people living where the new high-speed lines will be built are going to want a mix.
End result: We get mixed-use lines and high speed rail in the USA fails.
Acela had/has two big problems: Infrastructure that severely limits speed in the majority of its operational area, and excessive "safety" requirements that increased train weights WAY beyond that of European counterparts despite the European counterparts having a great track record. This weight gain in the end probably was one of the contributors to a major safety problem (Acela cracked brake discs).
startx or one of the programs it calls has the SUID flag set. (Meaning that the process will run with the privileges of the executable file's owner, not the privileges of the user who executed it.)
Yeah, looking for LO leakage. I believe this is how "radar detector detectors" work, along with the methods the British use to find unlicensed TV receivers. (IIRC, in the UK, you need to pay a license fee for each receiver to fund the BBC.) The stuff referred to by the AC poster is not this, however.
Also, it's going to overwhelm the system if you require all phones to have FM receivers - simply too much to track with very little identifying information. (It will be next to impossible to uniquely fingerprint a receiver based on LO behavior - at best you'll know what channels receivers nearby are tuned to based on LO frequencies present.) It's also far easier to track phones via existing methods (IMEI, SIM account info, Bluetooth/WiFi MACs)
Your phone probably has the required hardware - most HTC Windows Mobile-based phones do now, and my guess is the Android ones have almost identical hardware.
However, US-based carriers like to remove the software/drivers from their ROMs.
Also, the feature kind of sucks - it only works if you are using wired headphones (unit needs an antenna) and even then, reception is crap.
Better modded as "-1 Clueless" except that such a moderation doesn't exist. (However, it should)
The parent is telling us to google technologies for identifying *FM transmitters*. Now, this is basically useless for the FM broadcast band, because: 1) The band is so heavily regulated/licensed/technical barriers to entry so high that every emitter in that band is VERY well known 2) FM fingerprinting techniques primarily depend on properties of how the transmitter turns on, or "keys up". FM broadcast transmitters only "key up" after major maintenance or repairs - they're typically on 24/7.
It is also irrelevant to this article because it applies to identifying transmitters. I saw this marketed ages ago in a ham magazine, and it was marketed as being a tool to help catching "kerchunkers" - People who would briefly key up on a repeater's input frequency just to cause a repeater to key up. Sometimes these people would actually legitimately use the repeater AND ID themselves (as a legitimate user), and transmitter fingerprinting enabled their "kerchunks" to be associated with them.
However, in the context of this article (mandated broadcast band receivers), such transmitter fingerprinting technology is 100% useless/irrelevant.
There are plenty of far easier ways to track/identify a mobile device: 1) GSM IMEI or CDMA2000 ESN 2) For GSM phones, the account info in the SIM 3) For Wi-Fi enabled devices, the MAC address 4) For Bluetooth enabled devices, the Bluetooth MAC address
It's kind of funny - a number of phones have the hardware for this, but US-based carriers remove the software for it. (for example, my AT&T Tilt 2 has FM receiver hardware but stock AT&T ROMs don't have the software or drivers.)
The feature is pretty much useless anyway since it only works when the user has wired headphones connected (uses the headphones as an antenna), and even then the reception performance is poor.
The RIAA MIGHT have a valid complaint if they specifically focused this software removal issue, HOWEVER, forcing everyone to add extra hardware is just fucking nuts.
The problem is that the app changes settings in the card related to digital output, and then fails to undo those changes when playback stops/the app exits.
Other apps expect the sound system to be in its default state, so the way to fix it is to use an app that performs the same initialization AmaroK does, BUT unlike AmaroK, cleanly *undoes* the settings changes when done.
I don't know if it is Phonon or Amarok-specific, but I can tell you that for whatever reason, AmaroK completely screws up my system sound every time I use it.
Music played within Amarok will play fine, but everything else becomes silent until I fire up MythTV and watch something, as Myth seems to do a pretty thorough reset of my system's audio output settings once it finishes playback, while AmaroK seems to leave them hanging in a wacky state.
I think he's speaking about the fact that networkmanager integration in early KDE 4.x releases was EXTREMELY deficient.
If I recall correctly, Ubuntu had to pretty much write their own NM interface for KDE 4.x, and on my one remaining Gentoo box, I had to run the KDE 3.5 networkmanager applet for quite a while to have any sort of networkmanager functionality.
eBay stores dealextreme aliexpress (Note: aliexpress can be rather difficult to find good deals on. Apparently it is set up such that the shipping for each item ordered from a particular vendor has its own shipping costs applied, unless you contact the vendor to set up a special "item package" that combines multiple items into a single "store item" for combined shipping. Also, it can be difficult to tell who is shady and who is honest since it doesn't have the feedback system of eBay or the reviews system of DX.)
I'd say that in my experience: K-mart prices are almost always worse given equivalent items K-mart items that are "store-only" are of even worse quality than "store-brand" Wally World items Can't comment much on the help Wal-Marts are definately a step below Target, but every K-Mart I've been in for the past few years has been in extremely poor condition, WAY below Wally World
Problem is that it's very difficult to find unlocked phones that support the 3G bands in the US.
Pretty much with a few rare exceptions, if it supports a US carrier's 3G bands, it is sold by that carrier. There's not much benefit to buying an unlocked phone that is available from the carrier with a subsidy. (For some phones, there may be a benefit on T-Mobile, but in a lot of areas, T-Mobile's service is unusable.)
The analyses that claim a huge supply in the US are starting to come under criticism. Our supply may not actually be that huge.
There's also the fact that right now, we haven't figured out how to safely extract a large portion of it. Most of the deposits can't be accessed without hydraulic fracturing (hydrofracking) - The chemicals used for hydrofracking are toxic as hell, and wells that are hydrofracked seem to be prone to losing integrity and leaking gas into aquifers. That's why in Dimock, PA, you can't drink your well water, but you can console yourself with the fact that you can light your tap water with a match. That's why New York is in the process of passing a moratorium on hydrofracking until next year (It passed the state senate by a landslide this week).
But the two are likely to have impurities, and differ in terms of impurities present.
And as some other commenter said - 70 households of waste to power one car isn't too effective, unless they can improve the ratio sometime down the line.
It does lead to interesting thoughts - The sewage systems in developed countries are likely not nearly optimal for biogas generation, compared to the digesters that seem to be rapidly increasing in popularity in developing countries. I think the waste disposal systems that lead to optimal biogas generation are too "outhouse-ish" for most people in developed countries, but are a major leap forward in places like India where many places utterly lack any sort of sewage system whatsoever.
Yeah. Everything I have read has indicated that Westinghouse followed a process/policy of "epic stupidity", and likely would have been in even worse trouble had they used a proprietary solution.
OK, name a single one of the functions you described that would be handled by busybox.
Just because one component (busybox) to handle basic OS housekeeping functions is open source doesn't mean your main application (the TV stuff) has to be. That was my whole point. You can save a LOT of development time on OS housekeeping type stuff with busybox, and then publish that source code in compliance with the license and your competitors get NOTHING, because the stuff that matters is in another fully independent software component that does not fall under the GPL.
I think the problem is that it was in a restrictive invite state too long.
People would get access, realize they only had 2-3 contacts that also had access, and then return to communication methods that were more accessible. I tried Wave for a little, but I basically only knew one other person that had it. I think I stopped bothering after a week.
GMail, on the other hand, could survive for a long period of heavy invite restrictions because it was fundamentally designed to communicate with other email users. So it didn't matter much if your friends had gmail, as long as they had ANY email access, GMail was an improvement in your ability to communicate with your friends.
The great thing about this is that when the Arduino development environment gets too limited, you can unlock even more power from the hardware by just using avr-gcc and ditching all those abstraction layers.
Also, it's a lot easier to port an AVR-GCC based design to an alternate AVR chip (for example, shrinking a basic design to an ATTiny25/45/85, which is an 8-pin chip that can run at 16 MHz off of an internal RC oscillator, no external components required!)
I use Arduino hardware (well, Arduino-clone, specifically multiple Adafruit Boarduinos) a LOT but have never once touched the Arduino IDE. Boarduinos are nice cheap AVR dev boards!
It would've been pretty easy to fully comply with the GPL in this situation without giving anything of substance away to competitors.
There's no reason to be afraid of using GPLed code as long as you actually READ THE DAMN LICENSE and comply. For something like busybox there is almost no one who would suffer any competitive disadvantage by publishing the source code for the GPL software used in compliance with the license, and a pretty good market advantage (don't have to develop any of the basic functions busybox provides, so you can focus on developing the product-specific functionality).
And the 47" units that were discontinued within a year of them being sold, including no service/warranty parts being available.
I purchased a 47" 1080p Westy 3 years ago or so and was pretty happy with it, until it died 30 days before warranty expiration. (I also had a BB service plan due to making the calculation that this model with a so-so reliability rep plus the cost of the service plan was less than the cost of a model that had a good long-term reliability reputation.) It took almost a month for BB's service contractor to determine that it was not possible to obtain ANY service parts for this unit. End result is BB gave me a free upgrade to a brand new Sharp Aquos (Smaller screen but better contrast and MUCH better reputation, and at that point a lower MSRP than what I paid for the Westy.
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All of the people living where the new high-speed lines will be built are going to want a mix.
End result: We get mixed-use lines and high speed rail in the USA fails.
Acela had/has two big problems: Infrastructure that severely limits speed in the majority of its operational area, and excessive "safety" requirements that increased train weights WAY beyond that of European counterparts despite the European counterparts having a great track record. This weight gain in the end probably was one of the contributors to a major safety problem (Acela cracked brake discs).
startx or one of the programs it calls has the SUID flag set. (Meaning that the process will run with the privileges of the executable file's owner, not the privileges of the user who executed it.)
From one of the links in the article:
http://www.newit.co.uk/shop/products.php?cat=11
Looks like they have WiFi.
It does have WiFi, but some people want to use it as a wireless gateway/AP/provide more throughput than WiFi can provide.
Yeah, looking for LO leakage. I believe this is how "radar detector detectors" work, along with the methods the British use to find unlicensed TV receivers. (IIRC, in the UK, you need to pay a license fee for each receiver to fund the BBC.) The stuff referred to by the AC poster is not this, however.
Also, it's going to overwhelm the system if you require all phones to have FM receivers - simply too much to track with very little identifying information. (It will be next to impossible to uniquely fingerprint a receiver based on LO behavior - at best you'll know what channels receivers nearby are tuned to based on LO frequencies present.) It's also far easier to track phones via existing methods (IMEI, SIM account info, Bluetooth/WiFi MACs)
Your phone probably has the required hardware - most HTC Windows Mobile-based phones do now, and my guess is the Android ones have almost identical hardware.
However, US-based carriers like to remove the software/drivers from their ROMs.
Also, the feature kind of sucks - it only works if you are using wired headphones (unit needs an antenna) and even then, reception is crap.
Better modded as "-1 Clueless" except that such a moderation doesn't exist. (However, it should)
The parent is telling us to google technologies for identifying *FM transmitters*. Now, this is basically useless for the FM broadcast band, because:
1) The band is so heavily regulated/licensed/technical barriers to entry so high that every emitter in that band is VERY well known
2) FM fingerprinting techniques primarily depend on properties of how the transmitter turns on, or "keys up". FM broadcast transmitters only "key up" after major maintenance or repairs - they're typically on 24/7.
It is also irrelevant to this article because it applies to identifying transmitters. I saw this marketed ages ago in a ham magazine, and it was marketed as being a tool to help catching "kerchunkers" - People who would briefly key up on a repeater's input frequency just to cause a repeater to key up. Sometimes these people would actually legitimately use the repeater AND ID themselves (as a legitimate user), and transmitter fingerprinting enabled their "kerchunks" to be associated with them.
However, in the context of this article (mandated broadcast band receivers), such transmitter fingerprinting technology is 100% useless/irrelevant.
There are plenty of far easier ways to track/identify a mobile device:
1) GSM IMEI or CDMA2000 ESN
2) For GSM phones, the account info in the SIM
3) For Wi-Fi enabled devices, the MAC address
4) For Bluetooth enabled devices, the Bluetooth MAC address
It's kind of funny - a number of phones have the hardware for this, but US-based carriers remove the software for it. (for example, my AT&T Tilt 2 has FM receiver hardware but stock AT&T ROMs don't have the software or drivers.)
The feature is pretty much useless anyway since it only works when the user has wired headphones connected (uses the headphones as an antenna), and even then the reception performance is poor.
The RIAA MIGHT have a valid complaint if they specifically focused this software removal issue, HOWEVER, forcing everyone to add extra hardware is just fucking nuts.
The problem is that x86 has become so entrenched in the market that even it's creator can't kill it off.
You even cited a perfect example of their last (failed) attempt to do so (Itanic).
The problem is that the app changes settings in the card related to digital output, and then fails to undo those changes when playback stops/the app exits.
Other apps expect the sound system to be in its default state, so the way to fix it is to use an app that performs the same initialization AmaroK does, BUT unlike AmaroK, cleanly *undoes* the settings changes when done.
I don't know if it is Phonon or Amarok-specific, but I can tell you that for whatever reason, AmaroK completely screws up my system sound every time I use it.
Music played within Amarok will play fine, but everything else becomes silent until I fire up MythTV and watch something, as Myth seems to do a pretty thorough reset of my system's audio output settings once it finishes playback, while AmaroK seems to leave them hanging in a wacky state.
I think he's speaking about the fact that networkmanager integration in early KDE 4.x releases was EXTREMELY deficient.
If I recall correctly, Ubuntu had to pretty much write their own NM interface for KDE 4.x, and on my one remaining Gentoo box, I had to run the KDE 3.5 networkmanager applet for quite a while to have any sort of networkmanager functionality.
eBay stores
dealextreme
aliexpress (Note: aliexpress can be rather difficult to find good deals on. Apparently it is set up such that the shipping for each item ordered from a particular vendor has its own shipping costs applied, unless you contact the vendor to set up a special "item package" that combines multiple items into a single "store item" for combined shipping. Also, it can be difficult to tell who is shady and who is honest since it doesn't have the feedback system of eBay or the reviews system of DX.)
I'd say that in my experience:
K-mart prices are almost always worse given equivalent items
K-mart items that are "store-only" are of even worse quality than "store-brand" Wally World items
Can't comment much on the help
Wal-Marts are definately a step below Target, but every K-Mart I've been in for the past few years has been in extremely poor condition, WAY below Wally World
Problem is that it's very difficult to find unlocked phones that support the 3G bands in the US.
Pretty much with a few rare exceptions, if it supports a US carrier's 3G bands, it is sold by that carrier. There's not much benefit to buying an unlocked phone that is available from the carrier with a subsidy. (For some phones, there may be a benefit on T-Mobile, but in a lot of areas, T-Mobile's service is unusable.)
The analyses that claim a huge supply in the US are starting to come under criticism. Our supply may not actually be that huge.
There's also the fact that right now, we haven't figured out how to safely extract a large portion of it. Most of the deposits can't be accessed without hydraulic fracturing (hydrofracking) - The chemicals used for hydrofracking are toxic as hell, and wells that are hydrofracked seem to be prone to losing integrity and leaking gas into aquifers. That's why in Dimock, PA, you can't drink your well water, but you can console yourself with the fact that you can light your tap water with a match. That's why New York is in the process of passing a moratorium on hydrofracking until next year (It passed the state senate by a landslide this week).
Portable TrueCrypt requires admin rights.
If filtered properly, none. Methane is methane.
But the two are likely to have impurities, and differ in terms of impurities present.
And as some other commenter said - 70 households of waste to power one car isn't too effective, unless they can improve the ratio sometime down the line.
It does lead to interesting thoughts - The sewage systems in developed countries are likely not nearly optimal for biogas generation, compared to the digesters that seem to be rapidly increasing in popularity in developing countries. I think the waste disposal systems that lead to optimal biogas generation are too "outhouse-ish" for most people in developed countries, but are a major leap forward in places like India where many places utterly lack any sort of sewage system whatsoever.
I wouldn't say PBR is the reason. It's mainly Bud, Coors, etc.
PBR is even worse than the above so it really has zero visibility outside the country.
Yeah. Everything I have read has indicated that Westinghouse followed a process/policy of "epic stupidity", and likely would have been in even worse trouble had they used a proprietary solution.
OK, name a single one of the functions you described that would be handled by busybox.
Just because one component (busybox) to handle basic OS housekeeping functions is open source doesn't mean your main application (the TV stuff) has to be. That was my whole point. You can save a LOT of development time on OS housekeeping type stuff with busybox, and then publish that source code in compliance with the license and your competitors get NOTHING, because the stuff that matters is in another fully independent software component that does not fall under the GPL.
I think the problem is that it was in a restrictive invite state too long.
People would get access, realize they only had 2-3 contacts that also had access, and then return to communication methods that were more accessible. I tried Wave for a little, but I basically only knew one other person that had it. I think I stopped bothering after a week.
GMail, on the other hand, could survive for a long period of heavy invite restrictions because it was fundamentally designed to communicate with other email users. So it didn't matter much if your friends had gmail, as long as they had ANY email access, GMail was an improvement in your ability to communicate with your friends.
The great thing about this is that when the Arduino development environment gets too limited, you can unlock even more power from the hardware by just using avr-gcc and ditching all those abstraction layers.
Also, it's a lot easier to port an AVR-GCC based design to an alternate AVR chip (for example, shrinking a basic design to an ATTiny25/45/85, which is an 8-pin chip that can run at 16 MHz off of an internal RC oscillator, no external components required!)
I use Arduino hardware (well, Arduino-clone, specifically multiple Adafruit Boarduinos) a LOT but have never once touched the Arduino IDE. Boarduinos are nice cheap AVR dev boards!
It would've been pretty easy to fully comply with the GPL in this situation without giving anything of substance away to competitors.
There's no reason to be afraid of using GPLed code as long as you actually READ THE DAMN LICENSE and comply. For something like busybox there is almost no one who would suffer any competitive disadvantage by publishing the source code for the GPL software used in compliance with the license, and a pretty good market advantage (don't have to develop any of the basic functions busybox provides, so you can focus on developing the product-specific functionality).
And the 47" units that were discontinued within a year of them being sold, including no service/warranty parts being available.
I purchased a 47" 1080p Westy 3 years ago or so and was pretty happy with it, until it died 30 days before warranty expiration. (I also had a BB service plan due to making the calculation that this model with a so-so reliability rep plus the cost of the service plan was less than the cost of a model that had a good long-term reliability reputation.) It took almost a month for BB's service contractor to determine that it was not possible to obtain ANY service parts for this unit. End result is BB gave me a free upgrade to a brand new Sharp Aquos (Smaller screen but better contrast and MUCH better reputation, and at that point a lower MSRP than what I paid for the Westy.