There have been plenty of cars over time with no power steering - you can still steer, it is just a little harder (a good thing at a high rate of speed) and you can always pull the emergency brake - that is why it is there!
I was speaking for the average driver who doesn't know how to handle a vehicle with non-power assist steering and brakes. I had an old Honda Accord that developed a leaking steering rack. After awhile I couldn't keep the power steering fluid filled and eventually stopped trying. Drove the car for years with no power steering after that. My first car was a '64 Ford Galaxie. It had power steering but all-drum manual brakes. It wasn't the lack of power assist on the brakes that frightened me occasionally, it was the brake fade from being all drums.
Turning the key off, in most vehicles that I am experienced with over the past 30 or so model years, also locks the steering wheel.
On many that's only if you put the key in the "Lock" position (the only one where you can remove the key on any make and model, some will allow key removal even in Accessory mode). You could also turn the key to Accessory, and then back to On after the engine has died. This will free the wheel but the engine will remain off since it has to be restarted now. The ignition coil (if your car has one) will continue to charge and may eventually overload since it's not being discharged by the ignition system firing pistons now, but that will take some time to happen, so it wont be an issue in the time it spends on while you slow the car and pull over.
Depending on the power steering or brake system you have you may be able to operate them even without the engine running. An electric power steering pump will keep working off the battery for example.
The GSM AT&T uses is not available "around the world". Most of AT&T's network is on 850 mhz band, which is only used in the United States -- on AT&T's network. This is why people traveling overseas are always looking for quad-band phones, because the inclusion of AT&T's 850 mhz band means the exclusion of the 900mhz band used in Europe on dual or tri-band phones most often.
T-Mobile uses only the 1900mhz GSM band. Which is why many unlocked European versions of handsets can be used on T-Mobile's network fine (leading to importing of handsets not available in Amercia sometimes). This is also why you can take an Unlocked AT&T handset and use it on T-Mobile quite often (I am). But not the reverse, because sometimes the handsets T-Mobile sells are models originally developed for European markets and therefore don't include the 850mhz band needed by AT&T, but the AT&T handsets always include 1900mhz as one of the "other" frequencies they support.
Not to mention the transmission lever. Accelerating out of control? Put her in neutral. Keeps the power steering and brakes active, unlike just turning off the ignition, another solution to a stuck throttle.
I like this idea. Voting systems corporations claim their solution is accurate and secure, let them put their money where their mouth is and let people try and crack it. If their machine's security depends on nobody being allowed to even try then it's all theater.
I've recently learned that for the most part student loans don't exist in Japan. Students' tuition is either paid for by their family or they work part time while in school to pay it off. I can't help but wonder how expensive college is in Japan for this to work.
Maybe the issue isn't that student loan interest rates are too high but that colleges themselves charge too much in tuition to start with. Maybe 20 years ago a college degree was pretty much guaranteed to get you a good job. Nowadays, is it really worth the money U.S colleges charge anymore?
No, let me assure you (I work in Internet tech support) quite often the people who claim their machines are fine really don't know what they're doing. These same people will blame their ISP for such things as their monitor not displaying a picture "well my computer's fine, I got on it this morning".
Another thing is when they have multiple machines on a router and while their personal computer may be fine, another family member's is not, and since they may not use that machine or even have access to it, finding out what is responsible and getting it fixed can be a hassle.
Many of these people will also say that since they don't know how to fix the issue the provider should send someone out to fix it (not at the customer's expense of course). Now add to this people using unsecured wireless routers who may never even know what machine caused the issue. The customer takes the machine into a repair shop, the shop finds nothing, and now the customer wants us to reimburse them for the bench fee because "[we] were wrong and don't know what [we're] talking about. [Their] machine is fine".
You can see why providers are leery to enact policies that interrupt customer services and give them an excuse to get touchy about remaining a customer.
So... their response to a free, open source office suite offering file format compatibility with their own business-standard office suite is to release a crippled version of two of their programs (the two that OpenOffice does the best job of replacing I think) and include advertising in them?
Wow. What a strategy.
Now those users can do less than the fully featured product OR the free alternative AND watch ads while they do it.
I'm sure Microsoft will beat back the OSS onslaught when they tempt consumers with this offer.
When AT&T ran things during the ATTBI days they would routinely shutdown connections for subscribers who had known issues (trojans, etc). It would set their cable modem config file to some dummy one which would only get them to AT&T internal network pages and they'd have to call in to get working again--if they fixed the problem.
I don't see why that type of thing can't be restarted.
Because there are more choices in Internet service, so more people who insist their computer is fine would just cancel their service and go to a Comcast competitor who doesn't shut down connections like that. Comcast would rather keep their revenue flow than make their customer be more responsible for their computers.
If I could get my Netgear 802.11n PCI card to work on an Open Source operating system. From what I hear it's tough to find any -n adapters to work in Linux. Might as well just stick with all -g gear and save money.
Some features of iTunes (like burning CDs) also don't work on 64-bit XP.
You just need to get the 64 bit version of the drivers for optical discs (available elsewhere). I have iTunes 8.0.2 running on WinXP x64 and disc ripping/burning work fine.
Isn't it sad that now whenever any piece of legislation is crafted we automatically assume someone "bought" it and has ulterior motives to it's existence than what the bill would have you believe.
No, I'm cartainly aware how thievable postal mail is. But snailmail has already been given the blessing of being an okay method of transporting sensitive information by being the legacy carrier technology. It's protected by the virtue that interfering in the delivery of the mail to its intended recipent is a Federal Offense.
Whether this threat of prosecution is actually a practical method of preventing access by non-authorized parties is not the issue.
Email can be copied, redirected, etc without any change in the data. A postal bill being opened is easier to spot.
...wait. I mean, the account holder at this point has probably seen and done any damage that they are going to do with this information. How precisely is this going to help the bank's cause?
They aren't trying to prevent the unintended recipient from seeing the info at this point, their plan was probably to remove the evidence and then play dumb if anyone had identity theft problems afterwards.
Because the customer in question gave the bank a gmail account and said "send me information via this email address".
The bank is worried about a panic amongest it's customer base. So they obviously sent informtaion on a large number of their customers, that tells you the person requesting the info was not a bank customer but another financial institution or a company they contract with of some sort. These type of recipients are going to have their own domain names and mail servers running on them, so there's no reason the email should have been addressed to a gmail account to start with if it dealt with official business.
Why is the bank sending sensitive customer information to an email account hosted by a provider known for rifling though it's user's emails for information?
They don't think "oh hey while I'm violating copyright I'll violate patents too, just because I can!"
No, but if they don't particularly care about violating copyright, they won't care much about violating patents, either.
Nobody's saying they aren't violating patents either. That's not the topic here.
A moot point, given that people who are misappropriating unpaid-for content choosing to use a misappropriated unpaid-for format is hardly surprising.
You're dismissing the opinion of pirates on their choice of video codec because they're pirating content, implying they're somehow baised towards h264 because it's a patented codec. It's no suprise they use h264 because they have already shown they don't care about breaking the law, true. But they don't have any reason to proactively support h264, either. Ripping the content is their hobby, they will choose the tool they believe best for the job. They really don't care if it's Theora, h264, or even DivX. Their choice in h264 is still an endorsement for the format by people who in some cases know what they're doing when it comes to video encoding.
The app store is designed for federal employees doing official government business and is not intended for use by the public.
YouTube, GMail, and Wordpress are not designed for official government business. What's more the technology of today is not made to facilitate people interacting with their government. Being created by commercial interests It's made to do two things:
Separate people from their money.
Find out information about people and the types of companies and people they interact with, to increase the efficiency of separating them from their money, and to create a product of itself (information) that can also be sold, earning money for the company indirectly from these people.
I used to get a detailed audit of every phone call I made on my T-Mobile bill, for years after other carriers stopped offering it. Sometime in the last year T-Mobile stopped doing this as well, they now charge $3.50 for a detailed statement like that. Funny thing is I never recall any notice they were going to stop doing that. Just at some point I saw the call list was no longer there.
Why can't the companies just email me a PDF of the bill I normally receive? It would contain the due-date of the bill and how much I owe.
Because it would be an incredible security risk to send a plain PDF containing all of your account information over regular email?
And companies aren't about to get involved in teaching people how to set up their email clients to handle encrypted mail when they can just have you come to their website and view advertsing in the process of getting to your bill instead.
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I was speaking for the average driver who doesn't know how to handle a vehicle with non-power assist steering and brakes. I had an old Honda Accord that developed a leaking steering rack. After awhile I couldn't keep the power steering fluid filled and eventually stopped trying. Drove the car for years with no power steering after that. My first car was a '64 Ford Galaxie. It had power steering but all-drum manual brakes. It wasn't the lack of power assist on the brakes that frightened me occasionally, it was the brake fade from being all drums.
On many that's only if you put the key in the "Lock" position (the only one where you can remove the key on any make and model, some will allow key removal even in Accessory mode). You could also turn the key to Accessory, and then back to On after the engine has died. This will free the wheel but the engine will remain off since it has to be restarted now. The ignition coil (if your car has one) will continue to charge and may eventually overload since it's not being discharged by the ignition system firing pistons now, but that will take some time to happen, so it wont be an issue in the time it spends on while you slow the car and pull over.
Depending on the power steering or brake system you have you may be able to operate them even without the engine running. An electric power steering pump will keep working off the battery for example.
And how long were you planning to spend pulling your car over and shutting it off now that you can slow it down?
The GSM AT&T uses is not available "around the world". Most of AT&T's network is on 850 mhz band, which is only used in the United States -- on AT&T's network. This is why people traveling overseas are always looking for quad-band phones, because the inclusion of AT&T's 850 mhz band means the exclusion of the 900mhz band used in Europe on dual or tri-band phones most often.
T-Mobile uses only the 1900mhz GSM band. Which is why many unlocked European versions of handsets can be used on T-Mobile's network fine (leading to importing of handsets not available in Amercia sometimes). This is also why you can take an Unlocked AT&T handset and use it on T-Mobile quite often (I am). But not the reverse, because sometimes the handsets T-Mobile sells are models originally developed for European markets and therefore don't include the 850mhz band needed by AT&T, but the AT&T handsets always include 1900mhz as one of the "other" frequencies they support.
Not to mention the transmission lever. Accelerating out of control? Put her in neutral. Keeps the power steering and brakes active, unlike just turning off the ignition, another solution to a stuck throttle.
I'm surprised. Windows 7 is [b]25%[/b] more secure than XP at least. 25% is a big increase for Windows. :-D
I like this idea. Voting systems corporations claim their solution is accurate and secure, let them put their money where their mouth is and let people try and crack it. If their machine's security depends on nobody being allowed to even try then it's all theater.
The Terminators are made of people!
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of them! /obligatory
I've recently learned that for the most part student loans don't exist in Japan. Students' tuition is either paid for by their family or they work part time while in school to pay it off. I can't help but wonder how expensive college is in Japan for this to work.
Maybe the issue isn't that student loan interest rates are too high but that colleges themselves charge too much in tuition to start with. Maybe 20 years ago a college degree was pretty much guaranteed to get you a good job. Nowadays, is it really worth the money U.S colleges charge anymore?
No, let me assure you (I work in Internet tech support) quite often the people who claim their machines are fine really don't know what they're doing. These same people will blame their ISP for such things as their monitor not displaying a picture "well my computer's fine, I got on it this morning".
Another thing is when they have multiple machines on a router and while their personal computer may be fine, another family member's is not, and since they may not use that machine or even have access to it, finding out what is responsible and getting it fixed can be a hassle.
Many of these people will also say that since they don't know how to fix the issue the provider should send someone out to fix it (not at the customer's expense of course). Now add to this people using unsecured wireless routers who may never even know what machine caused the issue. The customer takes the machine into a repair shop, the shop finds nothing, and now the customer wants us to reimburse them for the bench fee because "[we] were wrong and don't know what [we're] talking about. [Their] machine is fine".
You can see why providers are leery to enact policies that interrupt customer services and give them an excuse to get touchy about remaining a customer.
So... their response to a free, open source office suite offering file format compatibility with their own business-standard office suite is to release a crippled version of two of their programs (the two that OpenOffice does the best job of replacing I think) and include advertising in them?
Wow. What a strategy.
Now those users can do less than the fully featured product OR the free alternative AND watch ads while they do it.
I'm sure Microsoft will beat back the OSS onslaught when they tempt consumers with this offer.
Because there are more choices in Internet service, so more people who insist their computer is fine would just cancel their service and go to a Comcast competitor who doesn't shut down connections like that. Comcast would rather keep their revenue flow than make their customer be more responsible for their computers.
If I could get my Netgear 802.11n PCI card to work on an Open Source operating system. From what I hear it's tough to find any -n adapters to work in Linux. Might as well just stick with all -g gear and save money.
You just need to get the 64 bit version of the drivers for optical discs (available elsewhere). I have iTunes 8.0.2 running on WinXP x64 and disc ripping/burning work fine.
Isn't it sad that now whenever any piece of legislation is crafted we automatically assume someone "bought" it and has ulterior motives to it's existence than what the bill would have you believe.
No, I'm cartainly aware how thievable postal mail is. But snailmail has already been given the blessing of being an okay method of transporting sensitive information by being the legacy carrier technology. It's protected by the virtue that interfering in the delivery of the mail to its intended recipent is a Federal Offense.
Whether this threat of prosecution is actually a practical method of preventing access by non-authorized parties is not the issue.
Email can be copied, redirected, etc without any change in the data. A postal bill being opened is easier to spot.
They aren't trying to prevent the unintended recipient from seeing the info at this point, their plan was probably to remove the evidence and then play dumb if anyone had identity theft problems afterwards.
The bank is worried about a panic amongest it's customer base. So they obviously sent informtaion on a large number of their customers, that tells you the person requesting the info was not a bank customer but another financial institution or a company they contract with of some sort. These type of recipients are going to have their own domain names and mail servers running on them, so there's no reason the email should have been addressed to a gmail account to start with if it dealt with official business.
Why is the bank sending sensitive customer information to an email account hosted by a provider known for rifling though it's user's emails for information?
Could you go in with your face bandaged beyond recognition, though? They wouldn't be able to ask you to take those off.
YouTube, GMail, and Wordpress are not designed for official government business. What's more the technology of today is not made to facilitate people interacting with their government. Being created by commercial interests It's made to do two things:
I used to get a detailed audit of every phone call I made on my T-Mobile bill, for years after other carriers stopped offering it. Sometime in the last year T-Mobile stopped doing this as well, they now charge $3.50 for a detailed statement like that. Funny thing is I never recall any notice they were going to stop doing that. Just at some point I saw the call list was no longer there.
Because it would be an incredible security risk to send a plain PDF containing all of your account information over regular email?
And companies aren't about to get involved in teaching people how to set up their email clients to handle encrypted mail when they can just have you come to their website and view advertsing in the process of getting to your bill instead.