I'm not sure, but isn't Onstar a fee-based system? If you don't pay, it goes away?
While it's true that they won't provide you service for free (after the first year), that doesn't mean that they won't continue to monitor your car for their own, or others, purposes. Seems like unless you physically disable it, it will still be available for abuse.
Yeah, and don't get me started on all these "safety" features. Now people just drive around willy-nilly thinking their fancy seatbelts, airbags, crumple zones, etc will save them. Someday, when I have kids I will get them a nice pre-airbag beater and remove the seatbelts to encourage safe driving.
25 years ago (gah!) I really freaked out my boss because I made a big production of turning my back to him as he typed the root password. I turned back and told him what he just typed.
Also, I heard of an art-project that would consist of two parabolicly carved stones placed on each side of a river, so you could talk to each other across the river. I don't know if it was carried out. It would be a really nice piece of hacker-art, though.
North Carolina State University has just such an art project in front of the main library. Each person sits inside a parabolic dish spaced about 100' apart. Granted it's not that far but other than a little echoing it sounds like the person is right behind you even at normal speaking volume. I don't think most of the students even know what the big blocks of concrete are there for though.
I am confused about one thing: while I'm used to Slashdot reporting non-news as news, and incorrect news as news, outside of April Fool's I don't think I've ever seen them report satire as if it were real news.
Ah, but any story even tangentially related to Google must be reported on the front page, even if it is fake.
Having been about the radiology dept of the local hospital and having a few visits to the "turn your head and cough" clinic, thanks to a broken clavicle, I can think of a pretty good use.
Hmmm.. If they are making you "turn your head and cough" for a broken clavicle, you may want to go to another clinic!
Not to mention that McDonald's has been using this technology for years. Mmmmm..... "All-beef" patty, "Special" sauce, lettuce (aka crunchy water), cheese?, pickles, onions, sesame seed bun....
Just a couple nitpicks. I believe the correct spelling for a couple of those items are: "all-beaf" patties, cheeze, and sesamee seed buns. They also provide sope for the employess to wash their hands with after using the bathroom and hare nets for the foud preparers.
I think that some slashdotters must be fortunate enough to have never seen a really good phishing email. We aren't talking about just some crappy, far-fetched Nigerian-type scams. The more apt analogy would be:
You get a letter in the mail on your banks letterhead in an envelope exactly like every other letter you have received from the bank (with the exception that the postmark is from a different zipcode than usual, but who checks those?). The letter states you need to sign some paperwork, could you please come to the nearest branch to take care of it. It provides some directions to your branch that isn't your usual route but their way does seem more direct. You arrive at the branch and everything looks just like you remember it, even the tellers look familiar. They ask you to fill in some account information on a form, sign it, and you are on your way.
The good phishes don't ask for your password or account information through email outright. In an official looking email they direct you to visit your financial companies website to update or confirm something. For your convenience they even provide a link to the "website" for you, which directs you to an exact duplicate of that companies login page. I have even seen ones where clicking on the "help" or "contact us" links will actually take you to the corresponding pages on the real sites. A lot of these phishers are far from amateurs!
But another thing is that instead of coming up with better shielding, we could just invent a cure for cancer. That would be worthwhile. Then, if 10% of the astronauts got cancer, we could just cure them.
Well, finally a good reason to cure cancer. The gratitude of millions of cancer patients, the potential billions of dollars in profits, Nobel prizes, etc. weren't enough incentive before. Maybe now scientists will finally get serious about finding a cure.
Because here in lawsuit-happy America if some kid's parents found out he was looking at porn at the coffee shop they might sue the coffee shop, it's ISP, the maker of the computer, and the provider of the coffee beans. They would probably manage to get a settlement out of at least one of them too.
Sheesh, one would hope that people can be competent at least when describing their own problems that they have to deal with every day...
Or one could hope that people can use reading comprehension (see that word "not"?) to realize that he does not have a problem, but rather his friend is the one that is "photosensitive".
Marriage is a contract Divorce is breaking that contract Then - someone having an affair with a married person, leading to divorce, should be guilty of a tort.
There are, in fact, a number of states in the U.S. (such as NC) where a husband or wife can sue their spouse's lover for "alienation of affection".
The rest of the world doesn't seem too have much trouble figuring out where they stand on issues like abortion, gay marriage and nanotech. Why do we?
Really? I think "rest of the world" is overstating it a little bit. Have you had extensive exposure to foreign media or residents on a global basis to know that these issues have been resolved universally? Seems like we don't hear that much here in the U.S. about other countries social issues unless it involves people getting blown up. I don't really see what abortion and gay marriage has to do with this anyway.
It is not like Europe is all for all new technology either. The anti-GM foods movement is as great if not greater over there than here.
I don't think the U.S. is on such a dire situation that we need to throw our morals and ethics out the window just yet.
Combined cycle coal gasification power plants do hold some environmental advantages over traditional pulverized coal combustion. One is that they can be operated at higher efficiencies. Another is if one wanted to capture and sequester carbon dioxide, the CO2 can be removed more easily from the CO2/H2 product stream than a traditional flue gas because it is at a higher concentration and pressure.
It isn't as if GTA is $5 or something. It usually sells for between 40 and 60 dollars. That's a shit load of cash for a 12 yr old kid.
I don't think that $50 is that much money to a lot of 12 yr olds anymore.
Back when I was that age, that would buy a pretty fancy pair of sneakers, a console system cost only like twice that amount, and 5 or 6 friends would chip in together to buy another a game for his birthday.
Now kids that age are running around in $100 sneakers, cell phones and all other kinds of expensive crap. Hell, my wife was telling me the other day about this morning radio host who let her kids use her credit card to buy a Magic card (or whatever scam they got going now) off ebay for $75. They decided to buy two instead!
There are plenty of kids who can cough up their own money for this.
most of the external damage (caused by worms and viruses, etc) is caused by people not patching vulnerable systems or having a poor network setup. The virus/worm writers certainly aren't innocent, but a lot of the companies are as guilty for not doing what they need to to defend against such attacks.
No, the external damage is caused solely by the virus/worm writers. Sure the companies could have done more to protect themselves and those who were responsible within the company should be punished by the company, but ultimate responsibility belongs with the ones who write the malicious code. I can think of a couple analogies (even one with a car) involving blaming the victim but I think there are enough of those on slashdot.
The reason why explosives work to put out well fires is that the fuel source is relatively confined and thus it is fairly easy to separate the fuel from the oxygen long enough to snuff out the fire.
In a forest fire the fire is completely surrounded by additional fuel. Between the heat of the explosion and the burning embers and such that would undoubtedly be thrown in to the air, you would be more likely to spread the fire rather than put it out.
Besides, I would think that in many cases forest fires may be tens of acres in size by the time they are finally detected, located, and the appropriate response teams are deployed. It would take quite the large boom to suck the air out of that kind of space.
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Also mention that they sell computers capable of viewing the Google website and you're guaranteed to get on the front page.
While it's true that they won't provide you service for free (after the first year), that doesn't mean that they won't continue to monitor your car for their own, or others, purposes. Seems like unless you physically disable it, it will still be available for abuse.
Yeah, and don't get me started on all these "safety" features. Now people just drive around willy-nilly thinking their fancy seatbelts, airbags, crumple zones, etc will save them. Someday, when I have kids I will get them a nice pre-airbag beater and remove the seatbelts to encourage safe driving.
Was it "password"?
North Carolina State University has just such an art project in front of the main library. Each person sits inside a parabolic dish spaced about 100' apart. Granted it's not that far but other than a little echoing it sounds like the person is right behind you even at normal speaking volume. I don't think most of the students even know what the big blocks of concrete are there for though.
Damn Bellsouth. Cheapest DSL (256K/128K) is $27.95 including their "cost recovery fee".
It helps drown out those pesky voices in my head.
Ah, but any story even tangentially related to Google must be reported on the front page, even if it is fake.
I'm sorry but the fine people I interviewed with at ExxonMobil assured that this was not the case and that we would never run out of oil.
(Cue the posts about how oil will never "run out" but just become so expensive that suddenly $150K for a fuel cell car will seem reasonable)
Next up: My grandma died and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.
Hmmm.. If they are making you "turn your head and cough" for a broken clavicle, you may want to go to another clinic!
Just a couple nitpicks. I believe the correct spelling for a couple of those items are: "all-beaf" patties, cheeze, and sesamee seed buns. They also provide sope for the employess to wash their hands with after using the bathroom and hare nets for the foud preparers.
Because both my grandmas are dead, you insensitive clod!
You get a letter in the mail on your banks letterhead in an envelope exactly like every other letter you have received from the bank (with the exception that the postmark is from a different zipcode than usual, but who checks those?). The letter states you need to sign some paperwork, could you please come to the nearest branch to take care of it. It provides some directions to your branch that isn't your usual route but their way does seem more direct. You arrive at the branch and everything looks just like you remember it, even the tellers look familiar. They ask you to fill in some account information on a form, sign it, and you are on your way.
The good phishes don't ask for your password or account information through email outright. In an official looking email they direct you to visit your financial companies website to update or confirm something. For your convenience they even provide a link to the "website" for you, which directs you to an exact duplicate of that companies login page. I have even seen ones where clicking on the "help" or "contact us" links will actually take you to the corresponding pages on the real sites. A lot of these phishers are far from amateurs!
and in their mom's basement, no less?
Well, finally a good reason to cure cancer. The gratitude of millions of cancer patients, the potential billions of dollars in profits, Nobel prizes, etc. weren't enough incentive before. Maybe now scientists will finally get serious about finding a cure.
Because here in lawsuit-happy America if some kid's parents found out he was looking at porn at the coffee shop they might sue the coffee shop, it's ISP, the maker of the computer, and the provider of the coffee beans. They would probably manage to get a settlement out of at least one of them too.
Or one could hope that people can use reading comprehension (see that word "not"?) to realize that he does not have a problem, but rather his friend is the one that is "photosensitive".
Divorce is breaking that contract
Then - someone having an affair with a married person, leading to divorce, should be guilty of a tort.
There are, in fact, a number of states in the U.S. (such as NC) where a husband or wife can sue their spouse's lover for "alienation of affection".
So, are the people who got it right morons or did you put yourself in that category with the above statement?
Really? I think "rest of the world" is overstating it a little bit. Have you had extensive exposure to foreign media or residents on a global basis to know that these issues have been resolved universally? Seems like we don't hear that much here in the U.S. about other countries social issues unless it involves people getting blown up. I don't really see what abortion and gay marriage has to do with this anyway.
It is not like Europe is all for all new technology either. The anti-GM foods movement is as great if not greater over there than here.
I don't think the U.S. is on such a dire situation that we need to throw our morals and ethics out the window just yet.
Combined cycle coal gasification power plants do hold some environmental advantages over traditional pulverized coal combustion. One is that they can be operated at higher efficiencies. Another is if one wanted to capture and sequester carbon dioxide, the CO2 can be removed more easily from the CO2/H2 product stream than a traditional flue gas because it is at a higher concentration and pressure.
I don't think that $50 is that much money to a lot of 12 yr olds anymore.
Back when I was that age, that would buy a pretty fancy pair of sneakers, a console system cost only like twice that amount, and 5 or 6 friends would chip in together to buy another a game for his birthday.
Now kids that age are running around in $100 sneakers, cell phones and all other kinds of expensive crap. Hell, my wife was telling me the other day about this morning radio host who let her kids use her credit card to buy a Magic card (or whatever scam they got going now) off ebay for $75. They decided to buy two instead!
There are plenty of kids who can cough up their own money for this.
No, the external damage is caused solely by the virus/worm writers. Sure the companies could have done more to protect themselves and those who were responsible within the company should be punished by the company, but ultimate responsibility belongs with the ones who write the malicious code. I can think of a couple analogies (even one with a car) involving blaming the victim but I think there are enough of those on slashdot.
In a forest fire the fire is completely surrounded by additional fuel. Between the heat of the explosion and the burning embers and such that would undoubtedly be thrown in to the air, you would be more likely to spread the fire rather than put it out.
Besides, I would think that in many cases forest fires may be tens of acres in size by the time they are finally detected, located, and the appropriate response teams are deployed. It would take quite the large boom to suck the air out of that kind of space.