"I wonder if there's a backdoor so that law enforcement can end a chase or make certain you stop for a roadside inspection or whatever."
Microwave burst jamming of electronics works pretty well. The Tesla, for all its advances in construction, is still not close to being a faraday cage like vehicles from the 70s and 80s. Since it's meant to receive microwave transmissions for data uplink, you've got an instant avenue of attack.
"the SMI handler can check whether the APIC overlaps the SMM range and change it"
Not if the SMB drivers aren't installed for the OS, no.
Which does not bode well for those who deliberately put an older OS on newer hardware, given SMB drivers for a lot of newer stuff doesn't even have an XP version.
Not like it affects performance, just affects security.
"But if that were the case DPI (resolution) doesn't matter."
Apparently you failed basic human physiology. DPI does still matter. Doesn't help if you've only got ONE CHARACTER ON SCREEN REGARDLESS OF SIZE, though, now does it?
And if your friend truly has macular degeneration, putting her close to a screen is THE WORST thing you can possibly do, given the knowledge that blue light makes macular degeneration worse, and guess what the primary color output of CCFL and LED backlighting happens to be? BLUE.
"Actually if you own a shopping mall in the USA and a self-appointed preacher enters and starts to sermon about the end of world being nigh, you have to tolerate that."
Wrong, it's called Tortious Interference and it's illegal.
"The normal, thinking individual understands that racism, sexism and discrimination are unacceptable in all cases."
Want to know how I know you simply do not think?
It's perfectly legal to discriminate against a minor when they're applying for a dangerous job that can deprive them of their life, or when they're trying to sign a contract. In fact, WE HAVE FEDERAL LAWS THAT EXPLICITLY ALLOW THIS because we originally WERE NOT DISCRIMINATORY ENOUGH and people got hurt.
"Why aren't MP3 files today 100 times larger than they were 15 years ago?"
Nowhere for the fucking stupid reasons you're positing without any obvious knowledge on the subject. If you even understood how the MP3 format worked in the first place you wouldn't be saying such stupid and ill-educated things.
"We need at least a mile of non-line-of-sight range, it's just not going to happen at 2.4GHz."
Nice job at failing to understand power transmission. It can happen, you simply lack the power (and regulative authority) to go to the power levels needed for such transmissions.
Looks plenty true to me. And then we get into Apple's bullshit marketing lies "Seamless design" I can sure as fuck see seams. How was your device even assembled without seams?
And only a 1080p screen on their latest model when I've got 4K screens the same size in my hand RIGHT NOW.
iPhone 6:
16GB
$199 64GB
$299 128GB
$399
iPhone 6 Plus:
16GB
$299 64GB
$399 128GB
$499
Looks quite true. 500 buck for a device not even as powerful as my laptop, and doesn't even have 1/10th of the storage space.
"I've heard of some 40% efficiency gains by avoiding the usual transformers per lamppost."
Or they could go with LEDs driven with very high-persistence phosphors, and run the LEDs direct off the main lines in a rectifier configuration, and have pretty much nil loss associated with a power driver in the first place. Just a proper resistor acting as the bridge element in the center of the diode config is all you would need.
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"I wonder if there's a backdoor so that law enforcement can end a chase or make certain you stop for a roadside inspection or whatever."
Microwave burst jamming of electronics works pretty well. The Tesla, for all its advances in construction, is still not close to being a faraday cage like vehicles from the 70s and 80s. Since it's meant to receive microwave transmissions for data uplink, you've got an instant avenue of attack.
"If an update goes out that inadvertently breaks every Tesla, a patch can be quickly distributed without having to wait."
And when that patch fucks the communications system and makes it impossible to do OTA updates???
That's what I thought.
"the SMI handler can check whether the APIC overlaps the SMM range and change it"
Not if the SMB drivers aren't installed for the OS, no.
Which does not bode well for those who deliberately put an older OS on newer hardware, given SMB drivers for a lot of newer stuff doesn't even have an XP version.
Not like it affects performance, just affects security.
If you go back through my comments, I told you that every x86 processor on the planet made since Pentium has been vulnerable.
This was the exact exploit I refused to go into full detail, except for saying the inherent problem is in the silicon itself.
And I was downmodded to hell and back.
Those that doubted me, you can eat crow, now!
You're OFFLINE, bust out the thumb drive, image it, and start making your rounds to ensure they are properly applied like a good IT guy.
"But if that were the case DPI (resolution) doesn't matter."
Apparently you failed basic human physiology. DPI does still matter. Doesn't help if you've only got ONE CHARACTER ON SCREEN REGARDLESS OF SIZE, though, now does it?
And if your friend truly has macular degeneration, putting her close to a screen is THE WORST thing you can possibly do, given the knowledge that blue light makes macular degeneration worse, and guess what the primary color output of CCFL and LED backlighting happens to be? BLUE.
They have zero reason to be awarding ANYTHING regarding design.
"Actually if you own a shopping mall in the USA and a self-appointed preacher enters and starts to sermon about the end of world being nigh, you have to tolerate that."
Wrong, it's called Tortious Interference and it's illegal.
"The normal, thinking individual understands that racism, sexism and discrimination are unacceptable in all cases."
Want to know how I know you simply do not think?
It's perfectly legal to discriminate against a minor when they're applying for a dangerous job that can deprive them of their life, or when they're trying to sign a contract. In fact, WE HAVE FEDERAL LAWS THAT EXPLICITLY ALLOW THIS because we originally WERE NOT DISCRIMINATORY ENOUGH and people got hurt.
" My definition of racism is discrimination based on race, regardless of the race"
Considering there's only the human race, you're pretty narrow-minded and thus not likely qualified to even define ANYTHING.
Go the fuck back to school you ignorant piece of shit.
Man bites dog is a fucking journalistic meme - e.g. it's not newsworthy unless it's out of the ordinary.
" 2. Dog bites man != not news. Man bites dog == news.
Ok, this one, I'm hoping I'm reading your wrong, but this seems a VERY racist statement on your part??"
You would think someone with a UID as low as yours would be old enough to know the old fucking phrase. Since you don't, shut up.
" If you want to detect your shadowbanning you'll need to log out and specifically go to the location of your comment in the thread manually."
Wrong, just go to your userpage. If you're shadowbanned "Oops, there appears to be nothing here" will pop up. Even if you're logged into the account.
" In future, we will probably see "actual" 3D video, storing Z coordinates of pixels as well as X,Y and all of the associated color information."
You do know we already have light-field cameras, yes? There's no 'in the future' for anyone that's been paying attention for the last THREE YEARS.
"If you're sitting 18 " away from your 55" inch screen, you're doing something wrong."
Or maybe you're just an ignorant tool that doesn't understand some people need to be that close EVEN WITH FUCKING GLASSES TO CORRECT THEIR VISION.
You insensitive thoughtless fool.
"Why aren't MP3 files today 100 times larger than they were 15 years ago?"
Nowhere for the fucking stupid reasons you're positing without any obvious knowledge on the subject. If you even understood how the MP3 format worked in the first place you wouldn't be saying such stupid and ill-educated things.
"We need at least a mile of non-line-of-sight range, it's just not going to happen at 2.4GHz."
Nice job at failing to understand power transmission. It can happen, you simply lack the power (and regulative authority) to go to the power levels needed for such transmissions.
Looks plenty true to me. And then we get into Apple's bullshit marketing lies "Seamless design" I can sure as fuck see seams. How was your device even assembled without seams?
And only a 1080p screen on their latest model when I've got 4K screens the same size in my hand RIGHT NOW.
iPhone 6:
16GB
$199
64GB
$299
128GB
$399
iPhone 6 Plus:
16GB
$299
64GB
$399
128GB
$499
Looks quite true. 500 buck for a device not even as powerful as my laptop, and doesn't even have 1/10th of the storage space.
They forgot how to spell. Looks like they're just in time for this round of studies!
"I've heard of some 40% efficiency gains by avoiding the usual transformers per lamppost."
Or they could go with LEDs driven with very high-persistence phosphors, and run the LEDs direct off the main lines in a rectifier configuration, and have pretty much nil loss associated with a power driver in the first place. Just a proper resistor acting as the bridge element in the center of the diode config is all you would need.
" which is a lot different ballistically"
Not even. It's just a higher and narrower arc for the most part, with the addition of more moving layers of air.
"Have you guys ever shot a shotgun??? I call BS on this 200ft claim and the 'expert'."
You've never gone hunting, I guess.
Here's 230 yards with ACCURACY on a roughly human-sized target.
Granted, it's a slug. But I've seen .410 shotgun using single/double/triple pellet buckshot load do some damage at distance, too, with accuracy.
Any half-competent person with a proper load can get 150 yards on a regular day with anything slightly larger than birdshot and a good choke.
Deliberately bottlenecking the hell out of the older Dual cores with a GTX 980 and 4GB RAM?
"That's what your computer's battery is for."
You assume everyone has a laptop, or has a laptop with a functional battery.
My laptop has the charger hardwired into the motherboard since the proprietary DC jack went bad. There is no battery, that thing exploded years ago.
Vista with SP1 over here is solid. I haven't had an issue with it.
Me. That pile of garbage needs a special history book dedicated to it.