Do you just check out at 2PM, or are you obligated to stay behind and put in extra hours to get the project done? I am guessing they hope for the latter.
I do by accident sometimes. This happens if I am expecting a call from one person and the phone rings and I pick up right away without waiting for caller-id to tell me who it is.
Mine is used mainly for lame websites that want to force you to register, but I never read the email sent there. At one time I had somewhat important stuff there, but I switched things over some time back for those things I do care about.
As it was I had a fairly strong random password with SMS 2FA set up. And I just changed it to and even stronger random password (longer).
But if I lost the account somehow it would barely be classified as a nuisance. I would just create another somewhere or another and move on..
I got Android 6 about a month ago, and while most things still work, it broke Android Pay pretty badly. It used to be easy to pay for something with the phone - now it keeps hounding me for the administrative password for the phone (even though I unlock the phone with my fingerprint), and some payment terminals get confusing/conflicting information from the phone which screws up the transaction even more.
It isn't worth the hassle of using the thing for payments any more.
If you look at the newer Gen-3 diesels and compare to similar gasser models, the one notable difference is that the diesels lack the independent rear suspension. Why? Most likely to make room for the DEF tank.
As you say, retrofitting DEF would be a challenge. Not just the tank, but plumbing, wiring, a new ECU, more sensors.
And where/how do you fill the tank? Where is the fill tube, in other words? If they end up having to cut the body panels to make room for it, how do they ensure that the metal around the edge is properly treated/painted so that it doesn't rust.
I have one without flash, which is the one I use normally. But yes, one can do such a thing.
If you were really paranoid about snooping, I guess you could set up a Linux VM and browse from there. Roll it back or blow away the profile from time to time if you wish.
The amount of work involved in maintaining your own browser is quite substantial. Even if it is just a fork of Firefox with a handful of things turned off.
There are a handful of other browsers that are out there - I don't know how well they deal with all of this stuff.
There has been lots of discussion over at tdiclub.com. Some people are happy with the amount offered, many others are not. It depends a bit on how good a deal you got on the car originally, how much you spent on aftermarket stuff to modify the car, how many miles you drive.
The ones that I have used all have a separate ethernet port for the management console. So by default it is off as you need to physically plug in an extra cable (and configure it in the BIOS) before any of this matters.
Show me a machine where you can't disable it in the BIOS, and where it shares the same ethernet port as the main machine, and then I will get a bit more excited.
That sounds about right. As best I can tell from the article they are essentially talking about the kind of stuff you can do from a DRAC/IPMI port. But there is no requirement that you plug in an Ethernet cable into the associated port if you don't want to.
For a while I was starting to wonder if we would need space-based interferometers to solve the noise/vibration problem. But fortunately that wasn't needed.
That was my first reaction as well. There are no FB reporters in the middle east, for example - any news from there comes from some other news source. Or some person on FB posting pictures from some unverified location.
It is more the filtering that concerns me. People insulate themselves and end up being unaware of things going on in the world. That's the thing about a real newspaper that is different - as you peruse the thing, you encounter stories that you might not normally read that turn out to be quite interesting. If you filter out everything except for things like celebrity gossip and cat photos, you gradually become a moron.
I once bought an OBD2 scanner from Amazon and when I got it, it was clear that the thing was a cheap Chinese knockoff with pirated firmware. You would expect that sort of thing on eBay, but Amazon surprised me.
For years my favorite scripting language was TCL - mainly because the syntax was fairly regular. But few other people used it, and that is why I rarely use it now.
I have always detested perl. Other people write these damned scripts, and I get stuck trying to maintain and/or tweak them. I usually have to start by wasting time doing google searches on obscure operators to try and figure out what the hell the damned thing does.
That kind of sums up why I no longer waste time going to the movies. That being said, there are a handful of decent ones out there, but they are hard to find, and tend to not stay in the theaters for very long.
TV is worse - they went into this "reality" black hole to avoid having to pay lots of writers. But to say that they are unscripted isn't correct either - I believe that there are elements to the shows added to make them more "interesting", and I suppose someone comes up with that crap, and their job title might be something along the lines of "writer".
Have you ever gotten a notification icon that you are near some store where you have a loyalty card in Google Wallet? I have. They collect *TONS* of information, and then sell it to whomever will pay.
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Do you just check out at 2PM, or are you obligated to stay behind and put in extra hours to get the project done? I am guessing they hope for the latter.
"Our Gs go up to 11. All the other companies, their Gs only go up to 10."
This isn't too far from what the article is telling us..
I do by accident sometimes. This happens if I am expecting a call from one person and the phone rings and I pick up right away without waiting for caller-id to tell me who it is.
Mine is used mainly for lame websites that want to force you to register, but I never read the email sent there. At one time I had somewhat important stuff there, but I switched things over some time back for those things I do care about.
As it was I had a fairly strong random password with SMS 2FA set up. And I just changed it to and even stronger random password (longer).
But if I lost the account somehow it would barely be classified as a nuisance. I would just create another somewhere or another and move on..
Harcourt Fenton Mudd, is that you?
I got Android 6 about a month ago, and while most things still work, it broke Android Pay pretty badly. It used to be easy to pay for something with the phone - now it keeps hounding me for the administrative password for the phone (even though I unlock the phone with my fingerprint), and some payment terminals get confusing/conflicting information from the phone which screws up the transaction even more.
It isn't worth the hassle of using the thing for payments any more.
If you look at the newer Gen-3 diesels and compare to similar gasser models, the one notable difference is that the diesels lack the independent rear suspension. Why? Most likely to make room for the DEF tank.
As you say, retrofitting DEF would be a challenge. Not just the tank, but plumbing, wiring, a new ECU, more sensors.
And where/how do you fill the tank? Where is the fill tube, in other words? If they end up having to cut the body panels to make room for it, how do they ensure that the metal around the edge is properly treated/painted so that it doesn't rust.
I have one without flash, which is the one I use normally. But yes, one can do such a thing.
If you were really paranoid about snooping, I guess you could set up a Linux VM and browse from there. Roll it back or blow away the profile from time to time if you wish.
The amount of work involved in maintaining your own browser is quite substantial. Even if it is just a fork of Firefox with a handful of things turned off.
There are a handful of other browsers that are out there - I don't know how well they deal with all of this stuff.
There has been lots of discussion over at tdiclub.com. Some people are happy with the amount offered, many others are not. It depends a bit on how good a deal you got on the car originally, how much you spent on aftermarket stuff to modify the car, how many miles you drive.
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The newer ones are designed to be "installed" in the cardslot so you can't even see them. Pulling on the green thing will no longer be sufficient.
The ones that I have used all have a separate ethernet port for the management console. So by default it is off as you need to physically plug in an extra cable (and configure it in the BIOS) before any of this matters.
Show me a machine where you can't disable it in the BIOS, and where it shares the same ethernet port as the main machine, and then I will get a bit more excited.
That sounds about right. As best I can tell from the article they are essentially talking about the kind of stuff you can do from a DRAC/IPMI port. But there is no requirement that you plug in an Ethernet cable into the associated port if you don't want to.
For a while I was starting to wonder if we would need space-based interferometers to solve the noise/vibration problem. But fortunately that wasn't needed.
That was my first thought. Someone elses photo with a faked ID. Profit!
You owe me a new keyboard - mine has coffee all over it now.
But it would technically be a comb-under, I think.
That was my first reaction as well. There are no FB reporters in the middle east, for example - any news from there comes from some other news source. Or some person on FB posting pictures from some unverified location.
It is more the filtering that concerns me. People insulate themselves and end up being unaware of things going on in the world. That's the thing about a real newspaper that is different - as you peruse the thing, you encounter stories that you might not normally read that turn out to be quite interesting. If you filter out everything except for things like celebrity gossip and cat photos, you gradually become a moron.
I once bought an OBD2 scanner from Amazon and when I got it, it was clear that the thing was a cheap Chinese knockoff with pirated firmware. You would expect that sort of thing on eBay, but Amazon surprised me.
For years my favorite scripting language was TCL - mainly because the syntax was fairly regular. But few other people used it, and that is why I rarely use it now.
I have always detested perl. Other people write these damned scripts, and I get stuck trying to maintain and/or tweak them. I usually have to start by wasting time doing google searches on obscure operators to try and figure out what the hell the damned thing does.
That kind of sums up why I no longer waste time going to the movies. That being said, there are a handful of decent ones out there, but they are hard to find, and tend to not stay in the theaters for very long.
TV is worse - they went into this "reality" black hole to avoid having to pay lots of writers. But to say that they are unscripted isn't correct either - I believe that there are elements to the shows added to make them more "interesting", and I suppose someone comes up with that crap, and their job title might be something along the lines of "writer".
I don't. Nor do I have most of the others.
Have you ever gotten a notification icon that you are near some store where you have a loyalty card in Google Wallet? I have. They collect *TONS* of information, and then sell it to whomever will pay.
I know you were being sarcastic, but petty criminals evidently haven't.
Sure. But it will end up burning the fries after it gets infected with malware to mine Bitcoins.