Totally the same thing, Jeeves. What next from your ilk, a Cyanide reference?
Yeah, like turr hurr, if people want cyanide laced Tylenol they should be able turr hurr!
Shut the fuck up. Trans fats are nowhere near as dangerous as people claim, they can be safely consumed in moderation and actually make many baked goods taste better.
You can safely consume trans-fats, you can't safely consume Hep A. The FDA's job is not to be our health watchdog. If it were, they'd ban all sorts of things people get obese or sick from when eaten to excess.
Jesus Christ. The guy you were replying to was being sarcastic (like a 5 year old child). He's a Big Government stooge, just the way you like your stooges. So you two are in violent agreement.
Why do they have separate men's and women's? It makes zero sense. In sports they have separate contests because women are at a sever disadvantage in literally every sport involving strength, speed, agility, or endurance.
Your argument (and Brazil's, it seems) is that since they're a shitty country with poor capabilities they weren't as effective at spying. Therefore they have the moral high ground.
Fucking seriously? If Brazil had the money and technology we have they'd be spying the shit out of their own people and everyone else in the world.
This is just fucking stupid. Why would anyone post this drivel? If you didn't realize this was just risible, abject fucking dipshittery after reading about 2 sentences of this god damn idiocy then you should not work anywhere in the field of computing.
This actually makes me angry. Unaccountable nerd rage.
This is only positive, there are no ramifications for your privacy for one simple reason - it's only useful in a high speed chase. When they want to track you (to see how many times you drive by your latest stalk-ee or to see how many cheetos runs you make to the local Quik-E-Mart) they can just attach it under your car much more easily already.
No. People like to inflate things. $35M was probably considerably more than the delta between the salaries they paid the Indians vs. how much they would have paid locally.
Vehicle tests where they explicitly created the condition _manually_. It's meaningless. You could hand over the ECU board for _any_ vehicle and someone could find a way to _tamper_ with it to cause acceleration like that. So fucking what? It's not proof.
Let me guess - they manually created this condition? Of course they did. It means nothing. If you let me go poke around in electronics to simulate various potential failure modes I'll find a way to make them fail in just about any way they possibly can.
"Your honor, we found that by cutting the ground wire and shorting these two wires we could shock the shit out of the consumer of this product. I move for an immedaite $10bn fine!"
The comparison may not be apt, it all comes down to density. If you have 400k people in a large area, it's going to be more expensive than 400k people in a smaller area.
Population density. It's incredibly obvious that this is the largest factor. Australia's population density is like 3/sq km for christ's sake, Canada's isn't much higher. South Africa's is in line with the US.
All those countries listed above with great Internet _start_ at 118 sq/km or so and go way higher. Japan's is 350/ sq km, they are the poster child for the "but, but, everyone has better internet than the US" rabble.
It's much easier to wire people together when they are close to one another.
I get it, snarky! The problem is the real reason is quite simple - the _least_ dense (population wise) country from that list of countries with cheap broadband is almost 4X as dense than the US. It costs money to run wires over long distances.
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Totally the same thing, Jeeves. What next from your ilk, a Cyanide reference?
Yeah, like turr hurr, if people want cyanide laced Tylenol they should be able turr hurr!
Shut the fuck up. Trans fats are nowhere near as dangerous as people claim, they can be safely consumed in moderation and actually make many baked goods taste better.
You can safely consume trans-fats, you can't safely consume Hep A. The FDA's job is not to be our health watchdog. If it were, they'd ban all sorts of things people get obese or sick from when eaten to excess.
Jesus Christ. The guy you were replying to was being sarcastic (like a 5 year old child). He's a Big Government stooge, just the way you like your stooges. So you two are in violent agreement.
No, they are apparently just strong enough. If people want to smoke that's their problem.
Whether you look at total population or online population, lot more sickos in England.
Englishman: Take off yer knickers, ya jim jammy poodle ya!
That was my cockney, btw. I've decided a jim jammy poodle is a little girl.
Yes. It's important that Chess avoid being a big money sport.
...because that's _totally_ a possibility, lol.
Why do they have separate men's and women's? It makes zero sense. In sports they have separate contests because women are at a sever disadvantage in literally every sport involving strength, speed, agility, or endurance.
But why in chess? It's baffling to me.
Lol, sweet argument.
Your argument (and Brazil's, it seems) is that since they're a shitty country with poor capabilities they weren't as effective at spying. Therefore they have the moral high ground.
Fucking seriously? If Brazil had the money and technology we have they'd be spying the shit out of their own people and everyone else in the world.
God, shut up. Literally everything you just said is complete bullshit. Lol.. "Mains powered", huh? God, what a dumbass.
Yeah, I feel like I'm taking fucking crazy pills reading this idiocy.
This is just fucking stupid. Why would anyone post this drivel? If you didn't realize this was just risible, abject fucking dipshittery after reading about 2 sentences of this god damn idiocy then you should not work anywhere in the field of computing.
This actually makes me angry. Unaccountable nerd rage.
Again, something that "could" happen. Meaningless.
They didn't immediately make it able to understand full-speed sign language including that from a man wearing black gloves in a dark room?!!!eleven!
Curse you, Microsoft Research, curse you to the depths of fucking hell!!!!
This is only positive, there are no ramifications for your privacy for one simple reason - it's only useful in a high speed chase. When they want to track you (to see how many times you drive by your latest stalk-ee or to see how many cheetos runs you make to the local Quik-E-Mart) they can just attach it under your car much more easily already.
No. People like to inflate things. $35M was probably considerably more than the delta between the salaries they paid the Indians vs. how much they would have paid locally.
Vehicle tests where they explicitly created the condition _manually_. It's meaningless. You could hand over the ECU board for _any_ vehicle and someone could find a way to _tamper_ with it to cause acceleration like that. So fucking what? It's not proof.
How did they reproduce it, by tampering with the electronics? Yes, that is how they reproduced it. This makes it meaningless.
Let me guess - they manually created this condition? Of course they did. It means nothing. If you let me go poke around in electronics to simulate various potential failure modes I'll find a way to make them fail in just about any way they possibly can.
"Your honor, we found that by cutting the ground wire and shorting these two wires we could shock the shit out of the consumer of this product. I move for an immedaite $10bn fine!"
Exactly, the voice of reason. I've seen no actual evidence that these electronics issues actually caused the crashes.
I call BS. If they reproduced it in an actual car it would have been huge news and it would be more than a footnote in an obscure PDF.
Easy enough, we don't have terrible internet access. I get cable, including HBO, plus 25-30Mbps down and 20up for like $100 a month.
You've shown nothing. Australia's Internet access is not much better than the US's. And only having to wire like 2 cities is no big task.
The comparison may not be apt, it all comes down to density. If you have 400k people in a large area, it's going to be more expensive than 400k people in a smaller area.
Population density. It's incredibly obvious that this is the largest factor. Australia's population density is like 3/sq km for christ's sake, Canada's isn't much higher. South Africa's is in line with the US.
All those countries listed above with great Internet _start_ at 118 sq/km or so and go way higher. Japan's is 350/ sq km, they are the poster child for the "but, but, everyone has better internet than the US" rabble.
It's much easier to wire people together when they are close to one another.
I get it, snarky! The problem is the real reason is quite simple - the _least_ dense (population wise) country from that list of countries with cheap broadband is almost 4X as dense than the US. It costs money to run wires over long distances.
What now?
I find it amusing so many people find this to be a big conspiracy or even a mystery.
I will solve it with 4 lines.
France: Population Density 118/sq km.
UK: 257/sq km
South Korea: 508/sq km
US: 33/sq km.
Come on, people. Work with me here this isn't complicated. Of course there are other factors but that right there is a big one.