It's all part of the Space Nutter religion. Complete disdain for normal human activity, but somehow caring about the entire species getting off this rock. Presumably, the "species" is limited to the Cheetos-dust-covered, basement-dwelling morbidly obese translucently pale worshipers of 1960s Space Age propaganda.
Still pissed that your parents wouldn't send you to space camp?
You stand a better chance of getting cool by arguing the price down to $20 at the junkyard. Why would that schematic be on the Internet? It's a cheap PCB module made by some unknown Mexican / Chinese / whatever module maker. The actual schematic probably doesn't even exist at this point - once the printed up the PCB and the pick lists, it probably got overwritten when the designer's 100 meg hard drive got filled up with porn.
You COULD spend entertaining hours reverse engineering that thing, but instead you're wasting time on Slashdot.
Now you really need to stop harping on the 'rounded rectangle' meme. It was a design patent - As we've endlessly argued here, Samsung copied much more than the corners of the iPad. You can argue that Samsung's design was sufficiently different from Apple's as to keep customers from getting confused but at best Samsung really pushed the envelope there.
But the design patent comprised the entire device, it wasn't about edge cases.
You might feel more fulfilled if you unplugged yourself from the Internet, sold your car, tossed your cellphone, put on a couple of free range burlap sacks and just sat in your local National Forest watching it rain whilst nibbling on some roots.
You'd have less angst, it would be cheaper (a recurring theme for you) and we would not be subject to your endless stream of Awful Experiences by the ignoble and inhumane hand of commerce.
I'm sure at this very moment, there are dozens of staffers from ad agencies employed by Apple quaffing quad shot lattes and bouncing all manner of story arcs off of each other, the walls and the urinals at Starbucks.
"2) Social engineer the car to be a part of this "rental agreement"."
Uh-huh, because if you want to strip a car, you're not just going to smash the window and hotwire the car with the little box you bought off of e-bay in under 5 minutes. Riiiight.
Of course not. That little box you bought on eBay likely came from some sweatshop in China and, for all you know, contains lead (a product known to the State of California to cause Cancer).
A little social engineering is pure, American made goodness (or maybe Nigerian, but hell, we're all free marketeers here, right?).
PH levels in the sea are rising. This a result of it. Let this bloom grow and it will eventually come in contact with a different PH level current or sea or ocean and disperse and die - the end result is a normal ph level.
No, the pH (note the way it's typed - stands for 'negative log of the Hydrogen ion concentration') is DROPPING (becoming more acid - look it up).
"Nature" doesn't 'heal itself'. It goes along working against entropy. Whether or not that happens to help humans is another issue.
And while you're hanging out on Wikipedia learning about acid - base reactions and buffers, check on the articles about ocean circulations and gyres.
Seemed like a dumb strategy anyway - a combination of artificial scarcity and security-by-obscurity. It isn't like the keys look particularly complex. In the 'olden days' somebody could have just created a mold and cast them or machined a copy. The laser cutter / 3D printer is just the modern twist.
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It's all part of the Space Nutter religion. Complete disdain for normal human activity, but somehow caring about the entire species getting off this rock. Presumably, the "species" is limited to the Cheetos-dust-covered, basement-dwelling morbidly obese translucently pale worshipers of 1960s Space Age propaganda.
Still pissed that your parents wouldn't send you to space camp?
You stand a better chance of getting cool by arguing the price down to $20 at the junkyard. Why would that schematic be on the Internet? It's a cheap PCB module made by some unknown Mexican / Chinese / whatever module maker. The actual schematic probably doesn't even exist at this point - once the printed up the PCB and the pick lists, it probably got overwritten when the designer's 100 meg hard drive got filled up with porn.
You COULD spend entertaining hours reverse engineering that thing, but instead you're wasting time on Slashdot.
Your mother would be ashamed....
places frequented by teenage girls and sexually frustrated housewives.
[citation needed]
However, blocking the threat is as simple as an ACL on your router...
This time. Next week it's a different address. So now you're playing Wack-a-mole?
Sounds like a vaguely familiar strategy....
And the group of guys with a bunch of ammo and an understanding of small squad tactics will be the new 'boss'.
Perhaps worse then the old boss.
You'll be quite honored. They might even give you something to eat now and again.
Why would I need an expensive, dedicated piece of equipment to perform the same job as one I already own?
What a very silly question.
Are you sure you're posting on the correct web site?
Looks to me almost exactly like the one I used when I still lived in the States.
And you still think those things were just surge suppressors, eh?
I commend you for having the courage to admit that in this crowd.
Especially with the nic "Dodgy".
Cucumbers AND Single Status - Check .... ERROR, unexpected parameter in Line 3
Condoms AND Cucumbers AND Single Status - Check
Large Gatorade
Now you really need to stop harping on the 'rounded rectangle' meme. It was a design patent - As we've endlessly argued here, Samsung copied much more than the corners of the iPad. You can argue that Samsung's design was sufficiently different from Apple's as to keep customers from getting confused but at best Samsung really pushed the envelope there.
But the design patent comprised the entire device, it wasn't about edge cases.
You might feel more fulfilled if you unplugged yourself from the Internet, sold your car, tossed your cellphone, put on a couple of free range burlap sacks and just sat in your local National Forest watching it rain whilst nibbling on some roots.
You'd have less angst, it would be cheaper (a recurring theme for you) and we would not be subject to your endless stream of Awful Experiences by the ignoble and inhumane hand of commerce.
I'm sure at this very moment, there are dozens of staffers from ad agencies employed by Apple quaffing quad shot lattes and bouncing all manner of story arcs off of each other, the walls and the urinals at Starbucks.
This is an advertising executives dream job.
FLASH: Raspberry Pi Helps Keep At Risk Hacker Kids Off The Street And High On LIFE!
(Next Headline)
Budding project stopped in it's tracks when it is revealed that Apple patented the concept three weeks ago.
I don't know about the rest of you but I have to buy a new tube every time I have a new CPU, the old tube always disappears.
Not everything that looks like toothpaste is, in fact, toothpaste.
Who among us treats a rental with the same tender care we treat our own cars?
I always check the tire inflation of a rental. I have gotten cars with 60 lbs of pressure. Does this make drifting easier?
Mr. Thompson? Hunter S. Thompson?
You're still with us? Thank God! We thought you were dead!
Modern cars are so depressingly hard to abuse that this is almost a non-issue.
I take it you're not around teenagers on a regular basis. No?
"2) Social engineer the car to be a part of this "rental agreement"."
Uh-huh, because if you want to strip a car, you're not just going to smash the window and hotwire the car with the little box you bought off of e-bay in under 5 minutes. Riiiight.
Of course not. That little box you bought on eBay likely came from some sweatshop in China and, for all you know, contains lead (a product known to the State of California to cause Cancer).
A little social engineering is pure, American made goodness (or maybe Nigerian, but hell, we're all free marketeers here, right?).
Why do you hate America?
It's nature healing itself.
PH levels in the sea are rising. This a result of it. Let this bloom grow and it will eventually come in contact with a different PH level current or sea or ocean and disperse and die - the end result is a normal ph level.
No, the pH (note the way it's typed - stands for 'negative log of the Hydrogen ion concentration') is DROPPING (becoming more acid - look it up).
"Nature" doesn't 'heal itself'. It goes along working against entropy. Whether or not that happens to help humans is another issue.
And while you're hanging out on Wikipedia learning about acid - base reactions and buffers, check on the articles about ocean circulations and gyres.
Ya HOOO....
Yeah, looks like she was pretty hot like 10, 15 years ago.
Just like Yahoo.
Seemed like a dumb strategy anyway - a combination of artificial scarcity and security-by-obscurity. It isn't like the keys look particularly complex. In the 'olden days' somebody could have just created a mold and cast them or machined a copy. The laser cutter / 3D printer is just the modern twist.
A pair of bolt cutters also works in a pinch.
Have you missed recent tech news?
http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/18/microsoft-tablet-announced/
He mentioned the word 'viable'.
Using that logic, we can just send up a couple of Brits with a tea kettle and we'll have that asteroid moved before supper!
Whoa there! How do you get your tin foil hat cinched on so tight?
Hint: They are raising funds for children orphaned by a war in what country that is not the Netherlands?
A country full of people that wouldn't know a joke if they had to vote for it in a presidential election.
You're using an episode of McGyver to support a technical point?
Tell me, did you ever try and find the phone number for the A-team when you were younger?